Elio Luxardo -

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Editeur : Silvana

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2026

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 128.0

ISBN : 8836662935

Résumé :

Predating his portraits of Italian movie stars, Luxardo's male and female nudes demonstrate his mastery of light, shadow and composition

Early in his career, Italian photographer Elio Luxardo (1908-69) devoted himself to nude photography, overlaying Greek and Roman aesthetics with thematic explorations of masculinity and femininity. These vigorous, seductive images have finally reemerged and are published here for the first time.

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Sommaire:
An adopted Roman, but born in Brazil in 1908 to Italian immigrant parents, Elio Luxardo (Sorocaba, 1908 - Milan, 1969) is perhaps the greatest representative of that generation of photographers who found themselves immersed in Italy in the 1930s, while clearly differentiating themselves from their colleagues of the time. A master craftsman of the darkroom, he arrived in Rome in 1932 and grew professionally during the period when the Cinecitt? film studios were being developed, cultivating his talent by portraying the actors and actresses of the time. But it was in his studio, far from the film sets, that he brought his inventive flair to the highest level, confining his work to a fascinating and intense mise en sc?ne, from which he was able to extract a brilliant core of images dedicated exclusively to nude photography. The book presents this intimate production of original photographs from the early 1930s, consisting of an unprecedented and engaging relationship between light and shadow. Fascinated by Greek and Roman sculpture, the male nude alternates admirably with the female nude, in a comparison that reveals the clash between two different identities: on the one hand, an involuntary process of observance of the dogmas of the time, and on the other, a tangible trace of his youthful spirit, nurtured in the lush and free atmosphere of Brazil. The man's strength and vigour are immediately apparent in the representation of the male nude, which, however, intersects perfectly with the elusive eroticism of the female nude, a woman's body far removed from the rhetoric of home, country, family and the icon of the angel of the hearth. This existential double game meant that his nude photographs, which did not fully comply with the canons of his time and those of the following decades, disappeared. His original, vigorous and seductive images have now finally re-emerged, finding light and visibility in a significant tribute to the artist. Texts by Nicola Del Roscio, Enrico Praloran and Giuseppe Vanzella, Federica Muzzarelli, Davide Pellicciari and Carlotta SpinelliText in English and Italian.?...