LABottega in Marina di Pietrasanta, hosts the interviews for Maledetti Fotografi by Enrico Ratto, founder, talking to the big manes of Italian photography.
Sunday 28 June 2015, 18.30
Massimo Sestini.
The most famous Italian paparazzo. For a shot, he’s prepared to dress up, hide, fly in a helicopter. “At times I have had my fair share of punches” he confesses. “It is a form of journalism. It’s to tell stories through real images that others want to hide”. His most famous shot? “Lady Diana on the beach in a bikini in 1991. The first two pieces of a royal dynasty”. His most daring “stolen moment”? “The funeral of Stefano Casiraghi, with Carolina in tears”. And in the news? “The 1984 train 904 bombing in Florence. I hid among a group of magistrates and managed to photograph that moment no one else would have had the chanced to do. The police confiscated everything except the rolls of film I had hidden in my socks. Stern put my picture on the front cover.” His photos have been published in the most important national and international newspapers and magazines. In 2015 he won the WPP, General News section.
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Massimo Vitali.
Massimo Vitali was born in Como in 1944. He studied photography at London College of Printing: in the sixties he began his career as a photo-journalist, and meeting Simon Guttmann, founder of the agency Report, contributed to him working for different Italian and European magazines and agencies. Since 1995 he has focussed on photography as an artistic pursuit, prompting the series of beaches, thought as an original way of depicting the world. His photos feature in numerous private collections and at the Reina Sofia Art Centre in Madrid, Prato Art Centre (Permanent collection), Guggenheim Museum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Fond National Contemporary Art, Pompidou Centre – National Museum of Modern Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris, and various other museums in Europe and the United States.
Sunday 20 September 2015, 18.30
Giovanna Calvenzi.
Giovanna Calvenzi graduated in Humanities in 1973 and taught History of Photography for eleven years in a professional institute in Milan. From 1985 he worked as a photo-editor and collaborated with different Italian magazines, and since 2012 he has been a consultant for the images of the San Paolo Periodical Press. He also teaches photo-editing and actively studies Contemporary Photography.
Dall’uscita Versilia dell’autostrada A12 proseguire in direzione Viareggio e alla prima rotatoria svoltare a destra in viale Apua; gli uffici sono ubicati al n° 188.
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