Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Curated by Giuseppe Casetti Production: Zoneattive One of the leading post-war Italian photographers, one of the founders of photojournalism, one of the masters whose photographic style is similar to that of no other: every single one of his shots is a living moment, from his portraits of artists to war photographs, his images are unique. This exhibition provides an opportunity to observe, through a nucleus of significant images, the different stimuli that marked this artist's career during fifty years of travel, civil and social commitment and his encounters with extraordinary men and women. "It must always be clear that taking photographs has never been my main interest. I still do not consider myself a photographer tout court. Photographs interest me as the bonding element of human relationships or when bearing witness to situations. I am not interested in people so as to take photographs of them..." http://www.comune.roma.it/cultura started to take pictures in 1952. He was at the time a journalist with "Milano Sera," but became a photo-reporter when Salvato Cappelli and Giulio Trevisani founded "Le ore", a photographic newspaper with a motto that said "a photograph is worth a thousand words". At the end of 1954 he moved to France. In Paris he became friends with many French authors and intellectuals. His group photograph of the authors of the so-called Nouveau roman (Nathalie Serraute, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Mauriac, Claude Simon, Jerome Lindon, Robert Pinget, Claude Ollier) portrayed in Paris in October 1959, in front of the offices of Les Editions de Minuit has become extremely famous and is fully legitimately part of 20th century literary mythology. When he returned from France, Dondero moved to Rome. "It was then that I became friends with Pasolini who I met through common friends such as Alberto Moravia, Dacia Maraini, Laura Betti, Enzo Siciliano and Goffredo Parise: we often ate together in the same trattoria.It was a formidable luogo di aggregazione, Gian Maria Volontè used to come there as well as many other film people.then one would meet Giovannino Russo, Corrado Stajano, Ennio Flaiano, Mino Maccari, Gianbattista Vicari, Giuseppe Berto, because Rome was like a small village.". Giuseppe Casetti Sala Santa Rita via Montanara, 8 ( Piazza Campitelli) 00186 Roma Italia 06 67105568 http://www.comune.roma.it/cultura OPENING TIME: Monday- Friday, 10 - 18 closed on Saturday and Sunday free admission COME ARRIVARE: Bus: via del Teatro Marcello n.44, 63, 81, 95, 160, 170, 175, 204, 628, 715, 716 Metro: Linea B fermata Colosseo