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Gelatin silver print, printed later
cm 60,8 x 50,4 (cm 50,4 x 43,3 picture) | 23.9 x 19.8 in. (19.8 x 17 in. picture)
cm 60,8 x 50,4 (cm 50,4 x 43,3 picture) | 23.9 x 19.8 in. (19.8 x 17 in. picture)
Edition 1 of 5
Signed, dated and numbered in black ink on the verso
Framed
Literature
F. Roiter, Fotografare Venezia, Trevisostampa, Treviso, 2008, p. 39
Fulvio Roiter is an emblematic figure of the kind of photography that developed in post-war Italy when technical and cultural training took place in the field because the only schools were those of the clubs. The very young enthusiast had the good fortune to have it in his Venice at the Gondola, the legendary photo club founded in 1948 on the wave of the stimuli provided the year before by the Milanese club La Bussola, directed by Paolo Monti, who was both Fulvio Roiter's sure guide and almost paternal friend figure. Quick to learn, the photographer, who would later make a name for himself above all in the editorial field by publishing books from his extensive travels around the world, was also very daring. When the publisher of Le Guilde Du Livre, who would later publish his first volume 'Venise a fleur d'eau', asked him if he had any shots of Venice, he, who had photographed Rome and Sicily but not his own city, confidently replied that he had many and set out throughout that summer before the decisive meeting with the publisher to actually take them. One characteristic is always to be found in this photographer's work: an attention to the shot, an unusual gaze, a search for reality, which always avoids any obvious rhetoric.