Corrado Preti (1931) - India - 55 fotografie originali. 1972

Corrado Preti (Lugo, 1931). India. 1972. 55 original black-and-white photographs mounted in an album measuring 38.5 x 43 cm. Photographs of various sizes, averaging 30 x 30 cm for the square images and 33 x 28 cm for the rectangular ones. One photograph has been cropped to create a photomontage. The photos are in excellent condition and mounted in the album with double-sided tape tips (they are easily removable). As is his custom, the photos are neither signed nor stamped. One of them is published in the Corrado Preti In viaggio catalog. Danilo Montanari Editore 2019. The catalog is not part of the auction; in fact we own only one copy, and it was photographed only for illustrative purposes. "In the panorama of Italian photography, there are authors who did not seek the limelight but who deserve a place of honor for the quality of their vision. Corrado Preti is exactly that: an extraordinary discovery or rediscovery, a photographer who remained outside the mainstream circuits for a long time but possessed astonishing technical and aesthetic mastery. His work, spanning fifty years of travels around the world, is not mere geographic documentation but a true poetic universe. Discovering today his whites and blacks, beginning with the pioneering journey to India in 1969, means immersing oneself in a time and a world that no longer exist, told with the pure, perceptive and deep gaze of the great masters of the twentieth century."

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Corrado Preti (born in Lugo in 1931) is an Italian photographer best known for his reportage and travel photography. He began cultivating an interest in photography in the 1950s in Lugo (Ravenna), gradually developing a style influenced by the great masters in the history of photography. Preti has traveled the world documenting cultures, landscapes and moments of daily life. One of his earliest and most important reports dates back to 1969 during a trip to India, from which a solo exhibition also arose. In 2019 he published the anthology book “In viaggio. Mezzo secolo di fotografie in giro per il mondo” (published by Danilo Montanari Editore), curated by Daniele Serafini. The volume and the related exhibitions present a carefully selected compilation of his most significant shots, regarded as a true poetic testament of an era in which traveling and photographing represented an existential adventure.