Paparazzo: The Elio Sorci Collection by Elio Sorci

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344mm x 247mm x 30mm

Pages: 352

In the post-war years of the 1950s, Italy saw an explosion in international n¼ülm production, and as stars n¼éocked to RomeGÇöfollowed by models, playboys, and monarchsGÇöthe city was transformed. A small band of press photographersGÇöor paparazziGÇöwere the very n¼ürst to document this Hollywood on the Tiber phenomenon, and prominent among their number was Elio Sorci.

Paparazzo is the n¼ürst den¼ünitive collection of SorciGÇÖs award-winning photography across three decades. Beginning in the late 50s, SorciGÇÖs work documents the evolving style of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren, as they blossomed from young starlets arriving in Rome to the grand dames of cinema and style, dripping with diamonds at n¼ülm premieres and cocktail parties. In the 1960s, SorciGÇÖs lens welcomed Brigitte Bardot onto the front pages of the worldGÇÖs newspapers, and the publicGÇÖs enchantment with her youthful style catalysed a sartorial breath of fresh air, as the 1970s ushered in pared-back lines and fresher faces, in the forms of Julie Christie, Isabella Rossellini and Vanessa Redgrave. Not forgetting the evolution in menGÇÖs styleGÇöas Clark Gable gave way to Omar Sharif, to Warren Beatty, to Robert de NiroGÇöeach frame captures the vitality and excitement of la Dolce Vita, while revealing something of the charm, vivacity, intuition, and tenacity of the photographer himself.