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Lot 71: ALFREDO CAMISA (1927 - 2007)

Est: £6,000 GBP - £8,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJune 12, 2012

Item Overview

Description

ALFREDO CAMISA (1927 - 2007)
La falce (The Scythe), 1955
gelatin silver print and contact sheet
print: titled and dated in ink, two photographer's credit stamps, 'Société Française de Photographie fondée en 1854, reconnue d'utilité publique 9, rue Montalambert Paris (7o) bab. 37-17' stamp and 'Federazione italiana associazioni fotografiche - FIAF' stamp (verso)
contact sheet: annotated in ink and pencil with photographer's notes (verso)

image/sheet 45½ x 11½in. (39.3 x 29.2cm.)
contact sheet 5 1/8 x 7in. (13 x 18cm.)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

III Mostra Internazionale di Fotografia, Venice, 1956;
Alfredo Camisa, Pescara, 1957;
Mostra d'arte Fotografica di Alfredo Camisa, Tripoli, 1957;
La Fotografia in Italia 1945-1975: Capolavori dalla Collezione Paolo Morello, Forma, Milan, 2010;
Italian Realism: Masterpieces from the Collection of Paolo Morello, Big Manezh, Moscow, 2011.

Literature

Ezio Croci (ed.), Fotoannuario 1958, Grlich, Milan, 1958;
Paolo Morello (ed.), Alfredo Camisa: Carteggio 1955-1963, Istituto Superiore per la Storia della Fotografia, Palermo, 2003, pls. 15-16;
Enrica Vigan (ed.), NeoRealismo, Admira, Milan, 2006;
Paolo Morello, La Fotografia in Italia 1945-1975, 2 voll., Contrasto, Rome, 2010, pl. 91;
Paolo Morello, La Fotografia in Italia 1945-1975: Capolavori dalla collezione Morello, Contrasto, Rome, 2010, pl. 123.

Auction Details

Masterworks of Italian Photography 1945-1975 From the Collection of Paolo Morello

by
Christie's
June 12, 2012, 12:00 AM GMT

85 Old Brompton Road, London, LDN, SW7 3LD, UK