Ando Gilardi
Ando Gilardi (1921-2012) was a pioneer in the study of photography in Italy and the founder of the Fototeca Storica Nazionale. Partisan, journalist and photo reporter in 1950s Italy; trailblazer, researcher and digital artist, Gilardi was a controversial figure, a provocateur unwilling to toe the establishment line, but with a fan base of keen readers who faithfully followed his publications, exhibitions and subversive sorties into social media. The author of cornerstone texts on the history of photography such as Storia sociale della fotografia (1976), Wanted! (1978), Storia della fotografia pornografica (2002) and Meglio ladro che fotografo (2007), he also created the magazines Photo 13, Phototeca and Storia Infame della fotografia pornografica.
Author's books
La stupidità fotografica
Ando Gilardi
pages: 108 pages
Ando Gilardi is hailed as the most irreverent photographer and academic to come out of Italy in the last century. In this brief essay in the form of a dialogue, Gilardi, author of cult books on photography and a truly eclectic figure, makes a mischievous and amusing foray into the concept of stupidity in the photographic realm, starting out from t