Tashkent hosts a photo exhibition “A view from Rome. Cinema, Culture and Fashion through the Lens of Elisabetta Catalano”.

The exhibition, organized in cooperation with Italy’s Embassy in Uzbekistan, introduces to the brightest features of Italian art and culture, and interesting events.

Elisabetta Catalano lived and worked in Rome. Considered one of the greatest witnesses to the work and lives of artists and other important cultural figures in Italy from the 1970s onward, Elisabetta became a portrait photographer of international fame.

Her professional career began as a contributor to Vogue Italia, Il Mondo, L’Espresso and other international publishers. In 1971 she worked in New York for Vogue America and in Paris for Vogue France, photographing the celebrities of the fashion world.

Catalano as photographer true debut came though, in the set of Federico Fellini’s iconic film, 8 ½, in which she played a role as Anouk Aimée’s sister. During her down time, she began to photograph behind the scenes, using her father’s old camera. These images were eventually published in L’Espresso and Il Mondo. Afterwards, Fellini invited her to photograph on the set of his other films as well, to document his artistic process. The great director went on to pose in Catalano’s studio several times, eventually using some of her portraits for his book covers.

As a consequence, in the seventies, Elisabetta Catalano decides to dedicate herself completely to portraiture. In her studio in Rome she went on to photograph some the most important avant-garde artists of the day as Alighiero Boetti, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert & George, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Cesare Tacchi, Janis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Vettor Pisani and many others.

Elisabetta Catalano’s portraits represent the inner beauty of a person. The exhibition presents many fragments of a bygone era, which are firmly entrenched in the cultural environment of Italy, photographs from Federico Fellini’s films.

The photo exhibition will run until May 30.

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Gulnoza Boboyeva, photos by Oybek Pardayev, UzA