LOT #28: “Vecchiano” Photograph by Massimo Vitali

Massimo Vitali, Vecchiano, 2006, offset print, 36" x 43-3/4" (framed), 25-3/4" x 33-1/2" (image), limited edition of 120 with 20 artist proofs, framed in a contemporary white frame, donated by Quint Contemporary Art.

Value $1,200
Bidding starts at $800 ($100 increments)

limited edition of 120 with 20 artist proofs. "Massimo Vitali, (http://www.massimovitali.com/) born in Como, Italy, in 1944, after liceo, takes a course in photography at the London College of Printing. In the early sixties starts a career in photojournalism collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. The meeting with Simon Guttmann founder of the agency Report is fundamental for his growth as a concerned photographer. At the beginning on the eighties a growing mistrust in the absolute capacity of photography in reproducing the subtleties of reality leads him to develop a new activity as cinematographer in the world of fiction and advertising. But the relationship with the still camera never ceased and over the past ten years he has developed a new approach in portraying the world: photography seen as an expression of contemporary art. Since 1995 has started the beach series. Lives and works in Lucca, Italy.”
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