2: La Dolce Vita: Tazio Secchiaroli and the Paparazzi in Italy 1954 – 1967
This exhibition is the second in our series ‘Starting a Photography Collection. Ten Exhibitions in Ten Weeks’; an ambitious programme of weeklong exhibitions in the run-up to the Photo London fair this May. This specially curated series covers a wide spectrum of photography from the nineteenth century to the present. The exhibitions range from the social concerns of Walker Evans to fashion and cinema, from architecture to nature, from the urban to the rural, from East to West. To encourage new collectors prices will start at just £350.
About the exhibition:
La Dolce Vita: Tazio Secchiaroli and Paparazzi in Italy is an exhibition of over 80 photographs that includes iconic images as well as rare works that have never been exhibited or published.
It includes rare original vintage prints by some of the most famous paparazzi photographers, and places centre stage Tazio Secchiaroli (1925-1998) – the basis for Fellini’s character, Paparazzo, in the seminal film, La Dolce Vita, 1960.
The exhibition also presents vintage works by a range of other photographers including Giancarlo Botti, Klaus Collignon, Loomis Dean, Walter Limot, Luciana, Pierre Manciet, David Magnus, Patrick Morin, Paoli di Paolo, Pierluigi Praturon, and Claude Schwartz.
Subjects include many of the greatest international stars of the period, who were in Rome to film at Cinecittà studios, among them, Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Elsa Martinelli and Elizabeth Taylor.
The exhibition is the second we have staged devoted to vintage paparazzi photographs and follows Brigitte Bardot and the Original Paparazzi (2009). It also follows the major exhibition Paparazzi! Photographers, stars and artists (Pompidou, Metz, 2014) to which we lent works, and coincides with Tazio Secchiaroli: on and off the set at the Italian Cultural Institute in London (14 March to 17 April 2016).
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