For the cycle “Depth of field: meetings around photography” on Sunday 19th at 5.00 pm new appointment entitled “Photos, anecdotes and books”.
Guest Claudio Barontini, a photographer with almost fifty years of activity behind him, and who has had numerous personal exhibitions, including one at the Sannio Museum in Benevento which is currently underway. The author’s intervention will give the opportunity to learn about the meetings and anecdotes behind many of his shots, often dedicated to celebrities of the caliber of Patti Smith, Vivienne Westwood, Lindsay Kemp, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Franco Zeffirelli, Sarah Ferguson, King Charles III of England. Claudio Barontini is a photographer and an eclectic artist. He attended the Trossi Uberti Academy of Figurative Art and studied the double bass at the conservatory. In 1973 he joined the orchestra of the singer Milva, with whom for eight years he played and took part in concerts around the world, including in the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York. It was during these tours that his interest in photography was sparked: he bought a reflex camera and began taking his first photos in Paris, New York, Boston, Hamburg and St. Petersburg. In 1979, while continuing his profession as a musician, he began collaborating as a free lance photographer for the “Culture and Entertainment” page of the Tuscan newspaper Il Tirreno. In 1990 he became a professional photojournalist and began collaborating with L’Europeo. In 1995 he was called to participate, as a freelancer, in the creation of the zero issues of the Mondadori project for the weekly magazine Chi. Today there are countless artistic collaborations and publications in national and foreign magazines. Barontini continuously holds personal exhibitions in museums and art galleries.
The initiative is organized by the Municipality of Livorno with the Agave, Itinera and CoopCulture cooperatives.
Participation is free.
INFO:
Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum
Telephone: 0586 – 8824607
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