Cameraphoto Epoche/Vittorio Pavan - Mick Jagger e Bianca -Venezia 1971

Digital printing with pigment inks on barite fiber silk paper, with a sheet size of 50x60 cm.

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 50x60 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Three hundred thousand mostly unpublished black and white images: negatives on glass, which over time give way to 4 x 5 images on film sheets, then to 120 rolls during the Fifties, replaced by 135 cartridges from the early 1970s onward. This is the content of the Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche archive in numbers. A quick look at it makes us fall in love with long-gone faces, places, and facts whose strength still emerges from 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 print 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 weekly publications, including 'Il Corriere della Sera', 'La Stampa', 'Der Spiegel', 'Time', and 'Life'.

In addition to photojournalism, he still collaborates with La Biennale and the Department of Culture for the realization of exhibition catalogues, including.
Vasily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, Cagnaccio, Titian, and El Greco.
In 1987, he took over the Agency.

He currently creates art photographs for books, collaborating with publishing houses such as Electa, Treccani, Biblos, and Magnus. In addition to reproducing works of art (the latest major work being the book "Emilio Vedova Sculptor" published by Skira), he produces analogue black and white prints and fine art digital prints for professionals and artists. Among his clients are Araki, Fulvio Roiter, Giorgia Fiorio, David Hamilton, and Danilo De Marchi.

In addition to his work as a photographer and printer, he has dedicated about five years to the enhancement and preservation of his historical archive, called 'Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche,' which contains approximately 300,000 negatives from the post-war period to the 1980s. These negatives represent, in various aspects, the history of Venice and beyond.