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Fulvio Roiter
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The work of Fulvio Roiter occupies a unique position in the history of 20^th century Italian photography.

Born in 1926 in Meolo, in the countryside of the Veneto region, while still very young he carried out a series of magnificent photographic reports on Sicily, Umbria, Andalusia and the Algarve, which made him known on the international scene as the child prodigy of Italian photography. Up to the 1960s, Roiter represented a model, often unattainable, for style, technique and formal rigour. In the 1970s, on the crest of the wave of success obtained, he abandoned black and white photography to dedicate himself to colour photography, also modifying his style and subject matter radically.

Thus it is possible to state that there are two different sides to Roiter. On the one hand there is the popular photographer of Venice and carnival masks, of postcards and gift-books printed in innumerable copies. On the other there is the great artist of the first masterpieces in black and white, almost completely forgotten and rediscovered after long research and examination of the archives of the photographer.

Paolo Morello
Director of the Istituto Superiore per la Storia della Fotografia

Paolo Morello
Paolo Morello teaches History of Photography at the IUAV, University of Venice. He is the author of essays on the photographer Luigi Capuana, on photomontage in fascist Italy and of numerous studies on 20^th century Italian photography. Among his books: Enzo Sellerio fotografo. Tre studi siciliani (Milan 1998); Briganti (Palermo 1999); Amen fotografia (Palermo 2000);Gli Incorpora. 1860-1940 (Palermo and Florence 2000).
He is now working on a history of photography for the publisher Einaudi and on the book La fotografia italiana 1948-1968. He is a member of the editorial board of the "History of Photography". He is the Director of the Istituto Superiore per la Storia della Fotografia.

Naomi Rosenblum
Naomi Rosenblum has taught History of Art and History of Photography in different American universities. She has edited many important studies on Lewis W. Hine, Paul Strand and in general on 20^th century American photography. She is the author of the famous book A World History of Photography (New York 1984), translated into several languages and of A History of Women Photographers (New York 1994). She is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Istituto Superiore per la Storia della Fotografia.