Camerapohoto Epoche/Vittorio Pavan - 67-Pino Pascali-Venezia Biennale 1968

Digital printing with pigment inks on baryta fiber silk paper, with a 60×70 cm sheet.

All images are taken from the original negatives, belonging to Vittorio Pavan's Cameraphoto Epoche Archive.

Print on 310 g/m² silk fiber baryta paper. pigment inks. Paper size 60×70 cm.
The image obtained from a 6×6 cm negative

Camera Epoche - Venice Historical Archive:
Three hundred thousand negatives, mostly unpublished, belonging to the Cameraphoto Epoche archive in numbers. A quick peek at it and we can't help falling in love with long-gone faces, places and facts whose strength still pops out of each contact print and has now become history: movie stars and art/culture personalities, day and night views of Venice and the surrounding countryside, gossip, crime, sports and local news, artwork or prints reproductions.

About Vittorio Pavan:
In 1972, at the age of 14, he was hired by Cameraphoto, the largest photojournalism agency in Venice, founded in 1946, collaborating in the production of development and black-and-white analogue press and the creation of photographic services for newspapers and weeklies, including “Il Corriere della Sera”, “La Stampa”, “Der Spiegel”, “Time” and “Life”.

In addition to photojournalism he also collaborates with La Biennale and with the Department of Culture for the realization of exhibition catalogs, including Vasilij Kandiskij, Egon Schiele, Cagnaccio, Tiziano and El Greco.
In 1987 he took over the Agency.

He currently makes art photographs for books, collaborating with publishing houses such as Electa, Treccani, Biblos, Magnus. In addition to the reproduction of works of art (the latest major work the book "Emilio Vedova Sculptor" published by Skira), he performs analogue prints in black and white and fine art digital prints, for professionals and artists, among my clients include; Araki, Fulvio Roiter, Giorgia Fiorio, David Hamilton, Danilo De Marchi.

In addition to the activity of photographer and printer, for about five years he has dedicated himself to the enhancement and conservation of his historical archive, called "Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche" containing about 300,000 negatives from the post-war period to the 80s, which negatives represent in the various aspects the history of Venice and not only.