collettivo culturale tuttomondo Paolo di Paolo (Italia)
fotografia: Paolo Di Paolo, Sul tetto del Duomo, Milano, 1960 – fair use
Paolo Di Paolo (Larino, 17 maggio 1925) è un fotografo italiano.
Dal 1954 al 1966 è stato il fotografo più pubblicato su Il Mondo, rivista fondata e diretta da Mario Pannunzio, realizzando esclusivi reportage tra i quali si ricordano: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, Giorgio De Chirico, Ezra Pound, Marcello Mastroianni, Luchino Visconti, Oriana Fallaci, e moltissimi altri personaggi e avvenimenti legati alla cultura, alla politica e all’arte di quel periodo … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
Ha concluso la sua attività di fotografo collaborando assiduamente con la famosa giornalista Irene Brin, creando con lei un “tandem” specializzato in reportage esclusivi sull’alta società internazionale.
Nel 1966, a seguito della chiusura de Il Mondo, decide di abbandonare la professione di fotografo, ritornando ai suoi studi filosofici e di ricerca storica.
Il suo archivio, perfettamente conservato, è stato riportato alla luce da sua figlia Silvia all’inizio degli anni Duemila.
Paolo Di Paolo (Larino, Molise, 1925) is an Italian photographer.
For 50 years, Italian photographer Paolo di Paolo’s pictures were hidden away. Even his daughter didn’t know her father had been a photographer. But when she found a box of his photographs one day, she discovered that he had portrayed some of the most important people in the history of creative Italy.
They were filmmakers and writers like Pasolini, Mastroianni, Anna Magnani, Bernando Bertolucci and Alberto Moravia. And she persuaded her father to show the pictures to the world.
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About 20 years ago, a young woman named Silvia di Paolo was digging around in the basement of her family’s home for skis when she stumbled upon a cache of over 250,000 photo negatives, prints, and slides.
When she asked her father, Paolo, a professor of history and philosophy, about them, he was initially reluctant to discuss them. Eventually, he admitted that the photos—including shots of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and other key figures of Italy’s post-war cultural renaissance—were taken by him during the period from the Fifties to the mid-Sixties when he was one of the country’s top photographers until he walked away from it all seemingly without reason.
The story of his life and work is now chronicled in “The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo di Paolo,” a new documentary by filmmaker and renowned photographer Bruce Weber, who happened upon a couple of Paolo’s portraits while on a trip to Italy and became determined to learn more about this photographer he had never heard of.
collettivo culturale tuttomondo Paolo di Paolo (Italia)