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- March 30, 2023
- Ariela Bard
- Press
The Italian photographer Massimo Vitali has spent the last 25 years taking pictures of people congregating on beaches, but he does not like to be called a “beach photographer.” Vitali’s ...
- February 28, 2023
- Taylor Barnes
- Short Essays
Portraits de Villes invites to listen to cities' rhythm through the eyes of an artist. Each book is a unique journey led by the singular vision of the artist. Massimo ...
- February 28, 2023
- Massimo Vitali
- Words & Images
Mise en abyme – literally "placed into abyss”– is a gimmick we used for a commercial collaboration with the swimwear brand Vilebrequin a couple of years ago. The swimming trunks ...
- January 25, 2023
- Massimo Vitali
- Words & Images
Dialogue between photographic gazes along the northern French coast: from Le Gray’s 19th-century seascapes, to Basilico’s “Bord de Mer” and Vitali’s most recent shots in Deauville. ...
- January 24, 2023
- Massimo Vitali
- Backstage Chronicles, Videos
Backstage chronicle of a 2004 shoot in the Canary Islands, one of the rare cases where I directed the subjects of my photographs… ...
- December 28, 2022
- Massimo Vitali
- Words & Images
At the studio, while going through all my photos for the archive project, we came across some installation views of my solo show at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles ...
- December 27, 2022
- Bianca Greco
- Specially Written Contributions
Archivio Balneare (“Seaside Archive”) is a photographic and audiovisual archive on Instagram that aims to collect images with a focus on the beach, showing how it has been represented in ...
- November 29, 2022
- Michael Fried
- Words & Images
I share here a short excerpt from Michael Fried incredible book “Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before”, which I believe is must-read for any photographer. In particular, this ...
- November 28, 2022
- Federico Jonathan Cusin
- Press
“The beach is a world that changes but always remains the same” – In a kind of silent photographic survey, Vitali chose the beach as a privileged place from which ...
- October 25, 2022
- Lorenzo Leone & Massimo Vitali
- Conversations
The all-human night landscape that triggered Vitali's curiosity back in the 90s is suddenly deprived of its function in Lorenzo Leone’s photographs of empty discos taken during the 2021 lockdown. ...
- March 17, 2022
- Enrico Ratto
- Conversations
We met the photographer best known for his large-scale pictures of ordinary people at the beach. He explained to us his art, and how it all started with a picture ...
- March 10, 2022
- Editor
- Videos, Words & Images
March 5th, 2022 marked the centenary of the birth of the Italian film director, novelist and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini. Always attentive to the social situation of his country, at ...