Elliott Erwitt: Kolor

Elliott Erwitt | Showgirls

Elliott Erwitt, USA. Las Vegas, Nevada. 1957. Showgirls.

PHOTOS BY ELLIOTT ERWITT: KOLOR

You’ve already understood that I do love photography, and I often talk about the life, the loves and the passions of the greatest photographers of the past and of the present.
From the great love between Robert Capa and Gerda Taro up to Robert Mapplethorpe’s provocations, the great protagonists of photography fascinate me, and I can’t miss any exhibition dedicated to them!

The exhibition I’ll talk about in this post is Kolor, the first great retrospective exhibition of colour images which the famous photographer Elliott Erwitt selected from his two great colour projects, Kolor and The Art of André S. Solidor.

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Art Deco: the Roaring Twenties in Italy

Alberto Martini: Ritratto di Wally Toscanini, 1925

Alberto Martini: Ritratto di Wally Toscanini, 1925

ART DECO. THE ROARING TWENTIES IN ITALY

Rudolph Valentino and the Divines, the Great Gatsby, the Turandot, long pearl necklaces and fashion.
In San Domenico Museum, Forlì, the great season of Art Deco, the 1920s, also known as the Roaring Twenties, will live again. A period of time made up of contrasts, during which the European bourgeoisie was living searching for luxury and the pleasure of living, while history was drawing a gloomy future.

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