Overview

A compact survey of photographer Paolo Roversi's romantic, intense and ethereal fashion images and portraits. Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen on a family holiday. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knapp led him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he first encountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when he became an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him the photographer's craft. Now based in Paris for more than thirty years, Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film to capture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability and romanticism. Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated colour, he collaborates regularly with the world's top supermodels and designers, and has shot for many leading fashion magazines and international ad campaigns.

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An economical way to build a library of great photography. Each of the 50 books in the series focuses on a single photographer and features 60-plus pictures, an essay, a biography and a bibliography. The pictures are perfectly readable in spite of their small size; the selections are retrospective, so readers get bits of each artist's entire career.-- ""William Meyers, The Wall Street Journal""

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Chiara Bardelli Nonino is the features director at Harper's Bazaar Italia. She has collaborated, among others, with FoamMagazine, Aperture, the British Journal of Photography, PhMuseum, The Photocaptionist, Flash Art Italia, Looking on, Canon Student Development Program, Metronom Gallery, Red Hook Labs, Marsèll Paradise, and Creative Review.

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