Alessandro Bertolotti (born in 1960) is an Italian writer and photographer.
He has worked as a director of variety shows for the Italian television channel RAI for twenty-five years. He is also a photographer of female nudes and author of two works on Capri. His photographs are included in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. He is one of the largest collectors of erotic books and nude photographs in Europe. [1] A portion of his book collection has been exhibited in the fall of 2007 at the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris. [2] His Books of Nudes (2007), according to ARTnews , "features published studies by photographers, both famous and forgotten, who have taken the naked body as their subject". [3]
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer.
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie, located in the historic heart of Paris, is a center for contemporary photographic art opened in February 1996.
Germaine Luise Krull was a photographer, political activist, and hotel owner. Her nationality has been categorized as German, French, and Dutch, but she spent years in Brazil, Republic of the Congo, Thailand, and India. Described as "an especially outspoken example" of a group of early 20th-century female photographers who "could lead lives free from convention", she is best known for photographically illustrated books such as her 1928 portfolio Métal.
Richard Kalvar is an American photographer who has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1975.
François Rousseau is a professional French painter and photographer born in 1967.
Villa Solitaria, also known as Casa Solitaria or La Solitaria, is a national historic house built between 1907 and 1910 via del Pizzolungo on the island of Capri by Edwin Cerio (1875–1960), a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist
Federico Ferrari is an Italian philosopher and art critic. He teaches Philosophy of Art at Brera Academy, in Milan, Italy.
A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in great volume, primarily in France, in the late 19th and early 20th century. The term was adopted in the United States, where such cards were not legally made. The cards were sold as postcards, but the primary purpose was not for sending by mail, as they would have been banned from delivery. The cards sometimes even depicted naked lesbians. French street vendors, tobacco shops and a variety of other vendors bought the photographs for resale to tourists.
Gianni Berengo Gardin is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising.
Barbara Luisi is a photographer and a musician. After many years in New York City, she now lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Venice, Italy. Her artist statement: "my work is concerned exclusively with the perception of three elements: darkness, sound and loneliness. As a trained classical violinist, I have to first hear my images and it is always this noise or music that triggers my themes."
Robert Delpire was an art publisher, editor, curator, film producer and graphic designer who lived and worked in Paris. He predominantly concerned himself with documentary photography, influenced by his interest in anthropology.
Dani Olivier is a French photographer. He has graduated from the business school HEC Paris. He started photography as a teenager in an informal, weekly photography club in Paris. Between 2000 and 2006, Olivier worked on digital self-portraits. He asked his models to use a digital camera to shoot their first nude selfies. He aimed to capture a unique moment that could not be reproduced: a person's very first selfie, long before the concept became popular.
Françoise Huguier is a French photographer.
Philippe Perrin is a French contemporary sculptor and photographer who lives and works in Paris. His works are in the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon.
Jean-Philippe Reverdot was a French photographer.
François Tuefferd was a French photographer, active from the 1930s to the 1950s. He also ran a darkroom and gallery in Paris, Le Chasseur d'Images, where he printed and exhibited the works of his contemporaries. His best-known imagery features the French circus.
Italo Zannier is an Italian art historian, photographer, academic and historian of photography.
Mohamed Bourouissa is an Algeria-born French photographer, based in Paris. In 2020 Bourouissa won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. His work is held in the collection of the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris.
Bernard Pierre Wolff was a French-born American photographer. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked as an art director, and from the 1970s worked as a photographer travelling and taking photographs of people. He made street photographs in New York City in the 1970s. His photographs of monumental sculpture were used as cover artwork for music by Joy Division in 1980. All of his work is held by the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, which exhibited it in 2017.
Richard Forster is a Swiss photographer and mechanical engineer. He is best known for nude photography in natural environments. His consistency and perseverance produced an opus which brought him recognition beyond Switzerland and France.