Marcello Norberth

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Marcello Norberth
Born16 January 1937 (1937-01-16)
Died5 March 2024 (2024-03-06) (aged 87)
Rome, Italy
OccupationPhotographer

Marcello Norberth (16 January 1937 – 5 March 2024) was an Italian photographer.

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Biography

Born in San Ginesio, Marche, Norberth graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and then moved to Rome, where he started his activity as a professional photographer, also collaborating with Vogue . [1] In the 1970s he specialized as a stage photographer, collaborating among others with Eduardo De Filippo, Nikita Mikhalkov, Peter Stein, Alvis Hermanis, Luigi Squarzina, Maurizio Scaparro, Orazio Costa, Mario Missiroli, Massimo Castri  [ it ], Giancarlo Cobelli, Luca De Filippo. [1] [2]

Norberth is best known for his association with Luca Ronconi, for whom he served as a photographer on nearly all of his theatrical works. [2] [3] Ronconi described him as 'the only one who had been able to capture the essence of his work'. [4] He died in Rome on 5 March 2024, at the age of 87. [1]

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