Autori e critici

An insider account

Over the years, Carlo Orsi has met numerous writers, intellectuals, and art critics, including Jean Pierre Faye, Oriana Fallaci, Ettore Mo, Philippe Daverio, Salvatore Quasimodo, Federico Zeri, Gillo Dorfles, Arturo Schwarz, and many others. With his camera, he has captured them at different moments and in different places—from his studio to the intimacy of their homes, but also in scenes of everyday life. Whether the photographs are the result of a carefully composed studio session or spontaneous snapshots, they reveal Orsi’s remarkable ability to grasp and convey the character of each subject through the photographic image.

His archive thus becomes a highly valuable record of the postwar cultural and artistic world—in Italy and abroad—in which Orsi himself was deeply immersed.

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Jesús Fernández Santos and Ignacio Aldecoa, 1958
(Spain)

Autori e critici


An insider account

Over the years, Carlo Orsi has met numerous writers, intellectuals, and art critics, including Jean Pierre Faye, Oriana Fallaci, Ettore Mo, Philippe Daverio, Salvatore Quasimodo, Federico Zeri, Gillo Dorfles, Arturo Schwarz, and many others. With his camera, he has captured them at different moments and in different places—from his studio to the intimacy of their homes, but also in scenes of everyday life. Whether the photographs are the result of a carefully composed studio session or spontaneous snapshots, they reveal Orsi’s remarkable ability to grasp and convey the character of each subject through the photographic image.

His archive thus becomes a highly valuable record of the postwar cultural and artistic world—in Italy and abroad—in which Orsi himself was deeply immersed.

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Jesús Fernández Santos and Ignacio Aldecoa, 1958
(Spain)
001-004-08
Ignacio Aldecoa and Jesús Fernández Santos, 1958
(Spain)
071-511-02
Author Lucio Mastronardi on a street in Vigevano, 1964
Vigevano (Italia)
062-041-37
Russian author Vladimir Sorokin portrayed outdoors, 2004
Moscow (Russia)
004-027-39
Salvatore Quasimodo
Bar Jamaica, Milan (Italy)
063-022-29
Miguel Asturias
Studio Carlo Orsi, Milan (Italy)
064-089-31
Alberto Bevilacqua, 1983
Studio Carlo Orsi, Milan (Italy)
070-440-24
Author Gerard Jarlot portrayed at the entrance of a Liberty building, 1965
Paris (France)
075-813-06
Author Rex Stout indoors, while smoking a cigar, 1968
Danbury (United States)
068-318-22
Oriana Fallaci, 1962
Milan (Italy)
072-567-05
Journalist Ettore Mo walking on a street in Milan, 2009
Milan (Italy)
074-695-34
Journalist Anna Piaggi posing in vintage clothing, 1991
Studio Carlo Orsi, Milan (Italy)
068-325-32
Philosopher and author Jean-Pierre Faye smoking on a street in Paris, 1965
Paris (France)
092-013-26
Jean Blanchaert and Philippe Daverio, 2000
Studio Carlo Orsi, Milan (Italy)
013-019-05
Portrait of art historian Arturo Schwarz, 1963
Milan (Italy)
084-170-08
Portrait of art historian Federico Zeri, 1998
Cefalù (Italy)