Italian photographers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Adolfo Farsari, Alberto Terrile, Tina Modotti, Gina Lollobrigida, Marco Bolognesi, Vanessa Beecroft, Romano Cagnoni, Fabrice de Nola, Guido Boggiani, Fosco Maraini, Secondo Pia, Davide Sorrenti, Olivo Barbieri, Letizia Battaglia, Antonio Beato, Francesco Carrozzini, Priscilla Rattazzi, Oliviero Toscani, Frederick Sommer, Yvonne De Rosa, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Luca Bracali, Marcello Geppetti, Marco Glaviano, Tony Vaccaro, Vittorio Sella, Elio Ciol, Franco Fontana, Ugo Mulas, Paolo Pellizzari, Simone Cecchetti, Giorgio Sommer, Alex Majoli, Francesco Negri, Armando Gallo, Emilio Lari, Luca Zordan, Fredi Marcarini, Marco Mazzi, Dido Fontana, Gusmano Cesaretti, Gianni Forte, Oscar Marzaroli, Mario Sorrenti, Tino Petrelli, Enzo Sellerio, Dianora Niccolini, Joey Shaw, Fulvio Bonavia, Peter Gallina, Pjetër Marubi, Vincenzo Galdi, Robert Rive, Albano Guatti, Ettore Roesler Franz, Marco Sanges, Giacomo Brogi, Fabio Chizzola, Giulio Mazzarini, Mario Giacomelli, Francesco Zizola, Sebastian Piras, Carlo Naya, Adolfo de Carolis, Otonella Mocellin, Ilario Carposio, Alessandro Bertolotti, Tancrède Dumas, Pietro Masturzo, Albert Patron, Luigi Ghirri, Dino Pedriali, Piero Gemelli, Pompeo Posar, Vittorio Alinari, Carlo Tavagnutti, Paolo Pellegrin, Carlo Ponti, Gaudenzio Marconi, Felice Quinto, Tazio Secchiaroli, Giuseppe Palmas, Gianni Giansanti, Giuseppe Incorpora, Wanda Wulz. Excerpt: Adolfo Farsari (11 February 1841 ¿ 7 February 1898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer. His photographic work was highly regarded, particularly his hand-coloured portraits and landscapes, which he sold mostly to foreign residents and visitors to the country. Farsari's images were widely distributed, presented or mentioned in books and periodicals, and sometimes recreated by artists in other media; they shaped foreign perceptions of the people and places of Japan and to some degree affected how Japanese saw themselves and their country. His studio, the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan, was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms. Largely due to Farsari's exacting technical standards and his entrepreneurial abilities it had a significant influence on the development of photography in Japan. Adolfo Farsari was born in Vicenza, Lombardy-Venetia (then part of the Austrian Empire, now in Italy). He began a career in the Italian military in 1859 but emigrated to the United States in 1863 and, a fervent abolitionist, Farsari served with the Union Army as a New York State Volunteer Cavalry trooper until the end of the American Civil War. He married an American, but the marriage failed and in 1873 he left his wife and two children and moved to Japan. Based in Yokohama, Farsari formed a partnership with E.A. Sargent. Their firm, Sargent, Farsari & Co., dealt in smokers' supplies, stationery, visiting cards, newspapers, magazines and novels, Japanese and English conversation books, dictionaries, guidebooks, maps, and photographic views of Japan. The creator of these photographs remains unknown, but Farsari was the maker of at least some of the maps, notably of Miyanoshita (in the Hakone resort area) and Yokohama. After his partnership with Sargent ended, the company, now