Camerapohoto Epoche/Vittorio Pavan - 06-Ski sull'acqua (idro scii ideato e brevettato da Campelli Giulio Cannaregio 1086) Venezia 1947

Digital printing with dye inks or pigment inks on baryta silk fiber paper, with a 60x70 cm sheet.

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

Print on 310g Silk fiber baryta paper. pigment inks. Paper 60x70 cm.
The image obtained from a 6×6 cm negative

Camera Epoche - Venice Historical Archive:
Three hundred thousand, mostly unpublished black-and-white images: negatives on glass give way, as time passes, to 4 x 5 film sheets, then to 120 rolls during the Fifties, replaced by 135 cartridges from the early 1970s on. Such is the content of the Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche archive in numbers. A quick glimpse at it makes us fall in love with long-gone faces, places, and events whose power still pops out of each contact print and has now become history: movie stars and art/culture figures, 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 still collaborates with La Biennale and with the Department of Culture for the realization of exhibition catalogs, including
Vasilij Kandinsky, 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 5 years he dedicates 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 their various aspects the history of Venice and not only."