Friday 10 July 2009

FRANCO FONTANA


"Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer born in Modena, Italy in 1933, best known for his abstract colour landscapes. Fontana's photos have been used as album cover art for records produced by the ECM jazz label.

He is known as the inventor of the photographic line referred to as concept of line He began working as an amateur photographer in 1961. His first personal exposition was in 1968 in Modena. Since then he has participated in more than 400 expositions - collective and personal - and his work is bought in approximately 60 museum collections all over the world. He has been signed for numerous publicity campaigns.

His work has been published in more than 40 books in various editions in Italian, Japanese, French, German, Swiss, English and Spanish. His numerous awards include the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award."(wikipedia)
FRANCO FONTANA @ ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY
FRANCO FONTANA @ WIKIPEDIA
FRANCO FONTANA @ ARPS GALLERY

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