Famous Photographers from Italy
- Adolfo de Carolis (1874–1928) was an Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer. He is generally associated with Art Nouveau (known as "Stile Liberty" in Italy), although many of his works could also be classified as Symbolism.
- Age: Dec. at 54 (1874-1928)
- Birthplace: Montefiore dell'Aso, Italy
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Alessandro Bertolotti
Alessandro Bertolotti (born in 1960) is an Italian writer and photographer.- Age: 65
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Anton Giulio Bragaglia (11 February 1890 – 15 July 1960) was a pioneer in Italian Futurist photography and Futurist cinema. A versatile and intellectual artist with wide interests, he wrote about film, theatre, and dance.- Age: Dec. at 70 (1890-1960)
- Birthplace: Frosinone, Italy
Augusto De Luca
Augusto De Luca is an Italian artist and photographer.- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Naples, Italy
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David Miscavige (; born April 30, 1960) is the leader of the Church of Scientology. His official title is Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), a corporation that controls the trademarks and copyrights of Dianetics and Scientology. Miscavige was a deputy to church founder L. Ron Hubbard (a "Commodore's messenger") while he was a teenager. He rose to a leadership position by the early 1980s and was named Chairman of the Board of RTC in 1987. Official church biographies describe Miscavige as "the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion".Since he assumed his leadership position, there have been a number of allegations made against Miscavige. These include claims of forced separation of family members, coercive fundraising practices, harassment of journalists and church critics, and humiliation of church staff members, including physical assaults upon them by Miscavige. Miscavige and church spokespersons deny the majority of these claims, often criticizing the credibility of those who bring them.- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Emanuele Cavalli
Emanuele Cavalli was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola Romana. He was also a renowned photographer, who experimented with new techniques since the 1930s.- Age: 121
- Birthplace: Lucera, Italy
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Ettore Roesler Franz
Ettore Roesler Franz (11 May 1845 – 26 March 1907) was an Italian painter and photographer. He was among the most prolific Italian water-colourists and vedutisti of the late nineteenth century.- Age: Dec. at 61 (1845-1907)
- Birthplace: Rome, Italy
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Felice Beato (1832 – 29 January 1909), also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and the Mediterranean region. Beato's travels gave him the opportunity to create images of countries, people, and events that were unfamiliar and remote to most people in Europe and North America. His work provides images of such events as the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Second Opium War, and represents the first substantial body of photojournalism. He influenced other photographers, and his influence in Japan, where he taught and worked with numerous other photographers and artists, was particularly deep and lasting.- Age: Dec. at 77 (1832-1909)
- Birthplace: Venice, Scorzè, Italy
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Floria Sigismondi is an Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer She is best known for writing and directing The Runaways, for directing music videos for performers including Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Leonard Cohen, Katy Perry and David Bowie, and commercials for brands such as Gucci, MAC, Target and Nike. Sigismondi has also directed television including two episodes of The Handmaid's Tale and American Gods.- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Pescara, Italy
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Fosco Maraini (Italian: [ˈfosko maraˈiːni; ˈfɔs-]; 15 November 1912 – 8 June 2004) was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.- Age: Dec. at 91 (1912-2004)
- Birthplace: Florence, Italy
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- Francesco Carrozzini (born September 9, 1982) is an Italian-born director, photographer and philanthropist currently based between Los Angeles and New York City.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Monza, Italy
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Francesco Scavullo (January 16, 1921 – January 6, 2004) was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.- Age: Dec. at 82 (1921-2004)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
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Harold Corsini
Harold Corsini (August 28, 1919 – January 1, 2008) was an American photographer. Harold Corsini was born to Italian immigrants in New York City and began his career there as a freelancer. A photo he took when he was about 16, an aerial shot of football players, is archived in the George Eastman Collection in Rochester, New York. He assisted Arnold S. Eagle for three years as a photography teacher for the National Youth Administration. Corsini admired the work of Roy Stryker's Farm Security Administration photographers and aspired to the documentary style they practiced. He joined the Photo League in 1938, "the only free camera club in New York City", whose members were socially concerned photographers. After a stint with Life magazine, in 1943 Corsini joined the Standard Oil documentary project under Roy Stryker, where he worked longer than any other photographer. In 1950, he accompanied Stryker to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and assisted him as head of the photographic department at the Pittsburgh Photographic Library. There he chronicled the city's first Renaissance, which included redevelopment of the Point and construction of Gateway Center. He remained in Pittsburgh when the PPL disbanded to begin his own commercial photography business. Eventually became the official photographer for U.S. Steel. Corsini's work with U.S. Steel reflected the industry from labor to output, and included industrial and technical pieces.Corsini retired when he sold his studio in 1975, then joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught for nine years. His photographic work is held, in addition to the Pittsburgh Photographic Library, by the University of Louisville Photographic Archives, the George Eastman House Photo Collection, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The University of Pittsburgh houses the Harold Corsini archives. He died on New Year's Day 2008, aged 88, following a stroke. He was survived by his wife, two children, and a brother.- Age: Dec. at 88 (1919-2008)
- Letizia Battaglia (Italian pronunciation: [leˈtittsja batˈtaʎʎa]; born 5 March 1935) is an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia.
- Age: 89
- Birthplace: Palermo, Italy
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Letizia Battaglia
- Age: 90
- Birthplace: Palermo
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Luis Marden
Luis Marden (born Annibale Luigi Paragallo) (January 25, 1913 – March 3, 2003) was an American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic Magazine. He worked as a photographer and reporter before serving as chief of the National Geographic foreign editorial staff. He was a pioneer in the use of color photography, both on land and underwater, and also made many discoveries in the world of science. His polymathic nature has led many to consider him the epitome of the "National Geographic man," the old-time adventurer who trekked to the edges of the globe in search of material for the magazine's longer articles. Though he had officially retired in 1976, Marden continued to write occasional stories long after. He wrote more than 60 articles for the magazine.- Age: Dec. at 90 (1913-2003)
- Birthplace: Boston, Chelsea, Massachusetts
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Oliviero Toscani (born 28 February 1942) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000. Toscani was born in Milan, and took up photography following in the footsteps of his father, Fedele Toscani, a photoreporter for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. After obtaining his diploma at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, he started working with different magazines, including Elle, Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. In 1982 he started working as Art Director for the Benetton Group. One of his most famous campaigns included a photo (by Therese Frare) of David Kirby dying of AIDS, lying in a Columbus, Ohio, hospital bed, surrounded by his grieving relatives. The picture was controversial due to its similarity to a pietà painting and because critics of the ad thought the use of this image to sell clothing was exploiting the victim, though the Kirby family stated that they authorized the use and that it helped increase AIDS awareness. Other advertisements included references to racism (notably one with three almost identical human hearts, which were actually pig hearts, with the words 'white', 'black', and 'yellow' as captions), war, religion and even capital punishment.In the early 1990s, Toscani co-founded the magazine Colors (also owned by Benetton) with American graphic designer Tibor Kalman. With the tagline "a magazine about the rest of the world", Colors built on the multiculturalism prevalent at that time and in Benetton's ad campaigns, while remaining editorially independent from group. Toscani left Benetton in 2000. A long-term Tuscany resident, in 2003 he created in collaboration with Regione Toscana a new research facility for modern communication called 'La Sterpaia'. In 2005, Toscani sparked controversy again with his photographs for an advertising campaign for the men's clothing brand 'Ra-Re'. Their portrayals of men participating in homosexual behaviour angered groups such as the Catholic parents' association Movimento Italiano Genitori, who called the pictures 'vulgar'. The campaign came amidst ongoing debate in Italy about gay rights. Toscani unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for parliament for the new Rose in the Fist party in the Italian general election held on 9 and 10 April 2006.In September 2007, a new campaign against anorexia was again controversial due to his shocking photography of an emaciated woman (Isabelle Caro).When Luciano Benetton returned as executive director of the Benetton Group in January 2018, he brought along Oliviero Toscani.In 2018, Toscani became a member of the Italian Democratic Party.- Age: 83
- Birthplace: Milan, Italy
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Olivo Barbieri
Olivo Barbieri (born 1954 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments. He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography. Barbieri's technique simulates the shallow depth of field effect of macro photography by tilting the lens's angle to the back plane of the camera, which creates a gradual blurring at the top and bottom edges, or left and right edges of the filmed image. The technique is called selected focus and the effect is that a picture of an actual city looks like the picture of a model.- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Carpi, Italy
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Paolo Pellegrin (born March 11, 1964) is a photojournalist. He was born in Rome, Italy, into a family of architects. He is a member of the Magnum Photos agency and has won ten World Press Photo awards.- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Paolo Pellizzari
Paolo Pellizzari (born 1956), is an Italian photographer living in Belgium. He specialises in crowds, human landscapes, he is a flaneur and observer of our world . He teaches author photography at La Cambre School of Art in Brussels and is a guest teacher at the ICP in New York.- Age: 69
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Pietro Marubi
Pietro Marubi or Pjetër Marubi (1834–1903) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and photographer who spent most of his life in Sanjak of Shkodër, today Albania. Pietro was born in Piacenza, Italy in 1834, in a period of revolution for Europe. In 1856, Marubi was forced to leave Italy because of his participation in the Garibaldi movement, he moved to Shkodër, where he opened the first photography studio, which was named Dritëshkronja.- Age: Dec. at 69 (1834-1903)
- Birthplace: Piacenza, Italy
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Stefano Levi is a film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and photographer.- Birthplace: Trieste, Italy
- Prince Tao Ruspoli (; born November 7, 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician.
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: Thailand, Bangkok
Tea Falco
Tea Falco is an Italian actress. Her credits include Me and You, Sotto una buona stella and the television show The Young Montalbano. Falco was born in Catania, Sicily.- Age: 38
- Birthplace: Catania, Italy
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Tina Modotti (August 16 (or 17) 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left Italy in 1913 and moved to the USA, where she worked as a model and subsequently as a photographer. In 1922 she moved to Mexico, where she became an active Communist.- Age: Dec. at 45 (1896-1942)
- Birthplace: Udine, Italy
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Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian contemporary performance artist. She works in the United States. Many of her works have made use of professional models, sometimes in large numbers and sometimes naked or nearly so, to stage tableaux vivants.- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Genoa, Italy
- Vittorio Sella (28 August 1859 – 12 August 1943) was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, who took photographs of mountains which are regarded as some of the finest ever made.
- Age: Dec. at 83 (1859-1943)
- Birthplace: Biella, Italy
