(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 13 - Chiara Samugheo, great photographer of divas in the 1960s and 1970s, died on January 13 in Bari, from Liz Taylor to Monica Vitti, from Shirley MacLane to Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Gina Lollobrigida.
Sources close to the family confirm this to ANSA.
Born in Bari on March 25, 1935 (but many argue that she coughed in '25: her date of birth was one of the best kept secrets of her life), real name Chiara Paparella, she had returned to the Apulian capital at the end of a very intense professional life. between Milan, Rome and Nice, a friend of journalists and intellectuals, from Enzo Biagi to Pierpaolo Pasolini, from Alberto Moravia to Giorgio Strehler. It was the journalist Pasquale Prunas, her life partner for a long time, who advised her to take a stage name by choosing for her that of a Sardinian village.
The landing in photography for the cinema after a first period dedicated to news and social reportage. Then the success that led her to sign the covers of major international magazines and to establish herself as the first Italian professional photographer. What differentiates her from her colleagues is the ability to create a dialogue and a profound intimacy with her subject, making them leak out of her photographs. Playing on the essentiality of the lines, you contrasted strong colors, on sumptuous hairstyles, the studio portrait was renewed in a striking way, which will become a model for the subsequent fashion and cinema photography of the 80s. Much of his immense photographic archive, which has more than 165,000 shots, is kept at the Study Center and communications archive of the University of Parma. L'last exhibition, which he wanted to dedicate to Raffaella Carrà, was set up in Avellino last autumn with the curatorship of Gianluca Marziani.
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