Pierluigi Praturlon - Barbara Luna

This is a fine vintage portrait of the well-known American actress BarBara Luna, executed by the renowned photographer Pierluigi Praturlon in 1969, presumably in Rome, after finishing filming in California for the movie "Che!" with Omar Sharif.
Pierluigi Praturlon, known to everyone as "Pierluigi," was perhaps the most famous among Italian photographers of the “Dolce Vita,” especially for portraits, even off the set, and for the photographs taken during the productions of various films; he was, in this, among the best in the world.
A beautiful vintage image, large in size, duly stamped on the back by Pierluigi himself, with his old stamp, and also with the precious sticker of PIX Incorporated.
Excellent overall condition; the photo is large format, i.e., 29.6 x 23.5 cm.
100% guaranteed authentic and vintage.
Pierluigi Praturlon (Rome, 1924 – Rome, 1999) was one of the most important on-set photographers in Italian cinema of the twentieth century. He began his career in 1946 as a street photographer and photojournalist, later specializing in cinematographic photography and opening his own agency in Rome.

Between the 1950s and 1980s he worked on the sets of over 400 films, Italian and international, including Ben Hur, Cleopatra, La grande guerra, La dolce vita, La ciociara, The Pink Panther, Matrimonio all’italiana and Amarcord. He was particularly close to Federico Fellini and closely documented the Rome of the Dolce Vita era.

Praturlon photographed some of the era’s most famous stars, including Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, and Anita Ekberg. He is also remembered for the images taken during La dolce vita, including those of Anita Ekberg at the Trevi Fountain. His style, closer to reportage than to a simple promotional portrait, aimed to capture the actors’ spontaneity and the atmosphere of the sets.

His work today is regarded as a precious testimony of Italian cinema and the culture of Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2006, the monograph Pierluigi. On Cinema was published, dedicated to his photographic archive.