A Flash of Art: Action Photography in Rome 1953-1973The setting: Rome, Italy. The era: the 1950s to the 1970s. The subject: everyone who was anyone in the international jet-set. The theme: hedonism, glamour and paparazzi. It was a time when to be snapped in fashionable Italy, to be a pin-up and to have a mutually beneficial relationship with the paparazzi were the main objectives for a certain crowd. If today the term "paparazzi" carries associations of scandal-mongering, voyeurism and right-to-privacy issues, "A Flash of Art" harkens back to the golden age of a once glamorous trade, when things were more black and white, as it were. Photographs by 22 Italian paparazzi, including Tazio Secchiaroli, Lino Nanni, Elio Sorci, Mario Fabbri and Marcello Geppetti, recall a Felliniesque era. There are a few harbingers of the time to come: pictures of celebrities caught in compromising and/or embarrassing situations. One set of images depicts a riled Anita Ekberg threatening another photographer with a bow and arrow as he tries to catch her arriving home after a night out; another shows Jane Mansfield lying in the street having been accosted by "ballerina" Alma del Rio. But the posed portraits of Hollywood icons Brigitte Bardot and Omar Sharif, the endless shots of gorgeous ladies in sparkly gowns, vamping for the camera, and the dapper men in dark suits and darker glasses are the real showstoppers. |
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... Copyright Eredi Guglielmo Coluzzi pag . 32 ( above ) VELIO CIONI " Tazio Secchiaroli ( with Enrico Lucherini ) in ... MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Sophia Loren , Carlo Ponti and Vittorio De Sica " , Rome 19 July 1960 Vintage gelatin silver print , 18 ...
... Copyright Eredi Guglielmo Coluzzi pag . 32 ( above ) VELIO CIONI " Tazio Secchiaroli ( with Enrico Lucherini ) in ... MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Sophia Loren , Carlo Ponti and Vittorio De Sica " , Rome 19 July 1960 Vintage gelatin silver print , 18 ...
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... Copyright Photo Masi srl pag . 168 ALESSANDRO CANESTRELLI ( ascribed to ) ... MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Anita Ekberg outside her villa drives photographers away ... Eredi Marcello Geppetti pag . 178 ( below ) MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Anita Ekberg ...
... Copyright Photo Masi srl pag . 168 ALESSANDRO CANESTRELLI ( ascribed to ) ... MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Anita Ekberg outside her villa drives photographers away ... Eredi Marcello Geppetti pag . 178 ( below ) MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Anita Ekberg ...
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... Copyright David Secchiaroli pag . 302 MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Dalida , Renzo Arbore , Gianni Boncompagni at the night ... Eredi Marcello Geppetti pag . 303 MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Dalida , Renzo Arbore , Gianni Boncompagni at the nigth club ...
... Copyright David Secchiaroli pag . 302 MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Dalida , Renzo Arbore , Gianni Boncompagni at the night ... Eredi Marcello Geppetti pag . 303 MARCELLO GEPPETTI " Dalida , Renzo Arbore , Gianni Boncompagni at the nigth club ...
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18 cm Stamp 1959 Vintage gelatin 1970 ca Vintage Agenzia Elio Sorci Anita Ekberg Anna Magnani Associati srl pag Ava Gardner Bologna Copyright Eredi Bologna Copyright Lino Bologna Copyright Photo Bologna Copyright Reporters Bologna pag Brigitte Bardot carbon copy Private Cinecittà cm Stamp Agenzia cm Stamp Italy's cm Stamp Lino cm Two stamps copy Private Collection Copyright Eredi Marcello Copyright Lino Nanni Copyright Photo Masi Copyright Reporters Associati Dolce Vita Enrico Lucherini Eredi Marcello Geppetti Federico Fellini gelatin silver print Italy's News Photos Jean-Paul Belmondo journalistic carbon copy Lino Nanni pag Lino Nanni Signed Marcello Geppetti pag Masi srl pag Nanni Signed Private Notes on verso Photo Masi srl PIERLUIGI PRATURLON Reporters Associati srl Rome Rome 1959 Vintage Signed Private Collection Sophia Loren Stamp Agenzia Elio Stamp Agenzia Masi Stamp Lino Nanni stamps Marcello Geppetti UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Veneto verso Private Collection Via Veneto Vintage gelatin silver Vittorio De Sica Walter Chiari