Table of contents:
- 1. Italian photographer
- 2. Style icon
- 3. Park Avenue
- 4. Hungarian uprising
- 5. In the city center
- 6. Brigitte Bardot
- 7. Skaters
- 8. View from a skyscraper
- 9. Member of the Hungarian uprising
Video: What the world was like in the middle of the 20th century: Photos of an Italian who shot for 50 years
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Italian photographer Mario De Biasi was one of the most important Italian photographers of the last century. For 50 years, the photographer has filmed major world events, traveled to all continents, released more than a hundred albums with his works and received dozens of prizes. His pictures are dynamic, emotional and full of inner energy.
1. Italian photographer
2. Style icon
Mario De Biasi is one of the leading figures of post-war Italian realism. Working in the genre of reportage shooting, he found vivid, speaking images, filling his works with life and meaning. The author of numerous books and winner of various awards, today he is one of the hundred most important photographers of the twentieth century.
3. Park Avenue
Born Mario De Biasi in Italy, in the suburb of Belluno. In 1938 he moved to Milan, where he lived most of his life. During the war, De Biasi was deported from Milan to a labor camp in Nuremberg. There, in 1944, Mario found a camera among the ruins of the shattered city. He began to shoot. Returning home in 1948, De Biasi organized his first exhibition of works from that period.
4. Hungarian uprising
The young photographer managed to attract attention. And in 1953 he received an offer from Epoca magazine. In this edition, De Biasi worked as a photojournalist for over 30 years. He has created a huge variety of reports from different parts of the world. 130 times his photographs were published on the cover of the magazine.
5. In the city center
Working in the genre of street photography, in 1954 in Milan, he captured men devouring the future queen of the Italian circus Moira Orpheus with their eyes. In 1994, this photograph of Gli italiani si voltano was featured on the poster for the Italian Metamorphosis exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In addition, the work was included in the edition "Facce della fotografia incontri con 50 maestri del XX secolo", published in English and German.
6. Brigitte Bardot
The collaboration with Epoca allowed Mario De Biazi to travel a lot. Having visited New York for the first time, he took a series of photos, which later became part of the album "Mario De Biasi: New York 1955". The writer Camilla Cederna said about this book: "His photographs breathe the wild smell of the sea, which at a certain time is heard in New York, the scent of wonderful donuts on Broadway at night … Not everything, not everything is said about New York."
7. Skaters
In the 60s, the photographer visited New York again and created one of his undisputed masterpieces. The 1964 photo shows a lonely person reflected in a puddle against the backdrop of skyscrapers.
8. View from a skyscraper
In 1956, Mario traveled to Budapest to photograph the popular uprising. All major publications sent their correspondents there: John Sadovy came from Life magazine, Erich Lessing represented Magnum agency, Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini - Paris Match. De Biasi was nicknamed “the crazy Italian” by his colleagues because of the fearlessness and tenacity with which he worked. While photographing, he did not notice bullets and was even wounded by a shrapnel in the shoulder.
9. Member of the Hungarian uprising
His pictures are a chronicle of despair and struggle. They were originally published in Epoca and had such an effect that they were later bought and printed in nineteen magazines around the world. Thanks to De Biasi, Italy for the first time won its place in the Pantheon of international photo reports.
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