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Massimo Vitali Landscape Photography

Italian, b. 1944

Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 1980s, a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path.

Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995. Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.

Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s large-scale photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization.

Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and, in 2020, Entering A New World.

Additionally, Vitali’s work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fonds national d'art contemporain in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.

Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).

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(Biography provided by Edition EKTAlux)

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Artist: Massimo Vitali
Porto Miggiano (framed) - large scale photograph of Italian Mediterranean beach
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Viareggio Pano (framed) - unique panoramic photograph of Mediterranean beach
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Rena Majori 2013
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Chromogenic print, edition 33 of 35
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2010s Contemporary Massimo Vitali Landscape Photography

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C Print

Meloria - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
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large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure Meloria (20...
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Santa Maria al Bagno diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
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Coney Es (artist framed) - large format photograph of iconic New York beach
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Rosignano Llama - large scale Mediterranean beach scene in Italy (artist framed)
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large format original photograph of the iconic Mediterranean white beaches of Rosignano in Tuscany by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of beach rites and rituals of modern leisure From Massimo Vitali's body of works captured along Italy's (almost deserted) beaches in the pandemic summer of 2020 Spiagge Bianche...
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Santa Cesarea diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
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Cala Conta Evening - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
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Cala Conta Point - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
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Praia do Aterro Galp Matosinhos - large scale MassimoVitali beach scene (framed)
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Located in San Francisco, CA
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Ibiza
By Massimo Vitali
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Massimo Vitali, formats: 60 x 75 inches and 80 x 105 inches, printed in Italy framed in Germany
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2010s Massimo Vitali Landscape Photography

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Viareggio Sun
By Massimo Vitali
Located in New York, NY
2006 Offset lithograph in colors on Consort Royal paper Sheet: 27 3/5 x 35 2/5 in. Edition of 120 Stamped with artist ink stamp and numbered on verso
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