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Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century

Mid 20th Century

Giulietta Masina - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. Giulietta Masina is considered one of ...

Giulietta Masina - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the1960s. Good conditions. Giulietta Masina is considered one of the best Italian actresses best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada directed by her husband Federico Fellini. Her portrayal of an innocent woman served as the emotional focal point for some of Fellini’s best films. Masina began acting in student theatre productions when she was in her teens. Although she enrolled as a student at the University of Rome in 1938, she continued to devote a good deal of time to acting in university plays and on the radio . In 1939 she made her professional debut in an Italian translation of Thornton Wilder...

Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions. Giuliett...

Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. Giulietta Masina is considered one of the...

In the series “Comedy of Double Meaning’ Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe photographs members of a Venetian theatrical troupe, the Pantakin Company, dressed as Pulcinella, Inna...

Alfredo Valente (1899-1973) was an Italian born American photographer known for his prolific career chronicling Broadway theatre. He is also credited as a singer, painter, art collector, dealer, and cultural administrator. Valente was born in Calabria, Italy where he trained as a fine artist and opera singer. In 1927, he immigrated to the United States where he performed opera in public. However, his singing career did not take off and he pivoted to focus on his photography. In 1931, he became the photographer for the newly formed Group Theater, an experimental theater company based in New York co-founded by Lee Strasberg. By the mid-1930s, Valente was regularly published by magazines and newspapers, most notably Stage, a magazine dedicated to Broadway theater. Valente was lauded as one of the leading theater photographers of the day and his use of artistic camera angles and dramatic lighting became his signature. He also became known for portraying actors and dancers in costume, but not while performing. In addition to Broadway, Valente photographed American Ballet Theatre (then known as Ballet Theatre) during the company's formative years during the 1940s. He photographed some of Ballet Theatre's most prominent dancers, such as Harold Lang...

In the series “Comedy of Double Meaning’ Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe photographs members of a Venetian theatrical troupe, the Pantakin Company, dressed as Pulcinella, Inna...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...