vrijdag, juli 02, 2004
Italy's notorious "paparazzi" photographers who hounded high society in the heyday of Rome's hedonistic "Dolce Vita" era is the focus of a new exhibition that opened in Rome this month and runs through October 3.
The show, entitled "A Flash of Art, Action Photos in Rome, 1953-1973", gathers 400 original and unpublished photographs by the men who stole the shots that immortalized such stars as Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Brigitte Bardot in the heady years of so-called Hollywood on the Tiber.
Tazio Secchiaroli, Guglielmo Coluzzi, Elio Sorci and Alessandro Canestrelli, some of the most notorious names in the business, are represented in the show at the Palazzo Venezia in central Rome. It charts how the aggressive paparazzi spawned a genre that fed public hunger for a glimpse into the lives of the rich and famous that carries on today, according to the catalogue written by curator Achille Bonito Oliva.
It was the landmark 1960 film "La Dolce Vita" by Federico Fellini that coined the name "paparazzo" for the lensmen who roamed the chic stretch between Via Veneto and Piazza di Spagna to catch the quarrels, kisses and excesses of the capital's international high society.
The exhibition also gives the "dolce vita" a starting date: August 14, 1958. It was that night that Secchiaroli was attacked by ex-king Farouk of Egypt when he caught the royal strolling down the Via Veneto with his Neapolitan mistress Capece Minutolo. The same night, Secchiaroli caught actor Anthony Franciosa, then married to American actress Shelley Winters, with the sultry Ava Gardner -- which got him in another fight.
Bron: AFP.
The show, entitled "A Flash of Art, Action Photos in Rome, 1953-1973", gathers 400 original and unpublished photographs by the men who stole the shots that immortalized such stars as Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Brigitte Bardot in the heady years of so-called Hollywood on the Tiber.
Tazio Secchiaroli, Guglielmo Coluzzi, Elio Sorci and Alessandro Canestrelli, some of the most notorious names in the business, are represented in the show at the Palazzo Venezia in central Rome. It charts how the aggressive paparazzi spawned a genre that fed public hunger for a glimpse into the lives of the rich and famous that carries on today, according to the catalogue written by curator Achille Bonito Oliva.
It was the landmark 1960 film "La Dolce Vita" by Federico Fellini that coined the name "paparazzo" for the lensmen who roamed the chic stretch between Via Veneto and Piazza di Spagna to catch the quarrels, kisses and excesses of the capital's international high society.
The exhibition also gives the "dolce vita" a starting date: August 14, 1958. It was that night that Secchiaroli was attacked by ex-king Farouk of Egypt when he caught the royal strolling down the Via Veneto with his Neapolitan mistress Capece Minutolo. The same night, Secchiaroli caught actor Anthony Franciosa, then married to American actress Shelley Winters, with the sultry Ava Gardner -- which got him in another fight.
Bron: AFP.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 21:52
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