Paolo roversi website
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Paolo Roversi, (b. Ravenna, Italy, 1947), has lived and worked in Paris for over 45 years. His interest in photography materialized in 1964 on a family holiday to Spain. Once home, he and another amateur photographer set up a darkroom where Roversi began to make his first black and white prints. In 1972, Roversi moved to Paris at the invitation of Peter Knapp, Elle’s renowned Art Director, and despite working initially as a reporter for the Huppert Agency, soon began to take an interest in fashion photography. In 1974 Roversi became the assistant to British photographer Lawrence Sackmann who, notoriously difficult to work for, usually had assistants for no more than one week. Roversi however lasted nine months and credits Sackmann with teaching him “everything (he) needed to know in order to become a professional photographer”. (Paolo Roversi)
Roversi undertook work for magazines such as Elle and Marie Claire and, following a Christian Dior beauty campaign in 1980, had soon established himself as one of fas
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Paolo Roversi
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Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi’s interest in photography began at an early age during a family vacation in Spain. In 1970 he started collaborating with the Associated Press; on his first assignment, AP sent Roversi to cover Ezra Pound’s funeral in Venice. During the same year Paolo opened his first portrait studio photographing local celebrities and their families. The following year he met Peter Knapp, the legendary Elle magazine Art Director, and at Knapp’s invitation, Roversi visited Paris where he quickly settled.
In Paris Roversi started working as a reporter for the Huppert Agency but soon developed an interested in fashion photography. After working with the British photographer Lawrence Sackmann, Roversi had some small jobs published for magazines like Elle and Depeche Mode. After Marie Claire published his first major fashion story, his career took off and his photographs have been the subject of many exhibitions and books.
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Paolo Roversi
Paolo Roversi (Ravena, 1947) es un fotógrafo de modaitaliano.[1]
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[editar]En 1970, comenzó a colaborar con la Associated Press: en su primera asignación, AP lo envió a cubrir el funeral de Ezra Pound en Venecia.[2] Durante el mismo año, Roversi abrió, con su amigo Giancarlo Gramantieri su primer estudio de fotografía, ubicado en Rávena.[2] En 1971, conoció por casualidad en Rávena a Peter Knapp, fotógrafo de moda suizo y legendario director artístico de la revista Elle. Por invitación de Knapp, Roversi visitó París en noviembre de 1973, donde comenzó a trabajar como reportero para la Agencia Huppert y, poco a poco, a través de sus amigos, comenzó a acercarse a la fotografía de moda. Los fotógrafos que realmente le interesaban por entonces eran reporteros. En ese momento no sabía mucho sobre moda o fotografía de moda. Solo más tarde, descubrió el trabajo de Avedon, Penn, Newton, Bourdin y muchos otros.
Roversi ha sido colaborador habitual de Vogue Americano, y Vogue Italia, W, Vanity Fair, Entrevista y i-D.
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