PinkVanilla. Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Paolo Roversi :wub2: briliant*tho all his work is like a romantic drama all happening in a dream, me personaly i adoreee him. Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi’s interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. Back home, he set up a darkroom in a convenient cellar with another keen amateur, the local postman Battista Minguzzi, and began developing and printing his own black & white work. The encounter with a local professional photographer Nevio Natali was very important: in Nevio’s studio Paolo spent many many hours realising an important apprenticeship as well as a strong durable friendship.In 1970 he started collaborating with the Associated Press: on his first assignment, AP sent Paolo to cover Ezra Pound’s funeral in Venice. During the same year Paolo opened, with his friend Giancarlo Gramantieri his first portrait studio, located in Ravenna, via Cavour, 58, photographing local celebrities and their families. In 1971 he met by chance in Ravenna, Peter Knapp, the legendary Art Director of Elle magazine. At Knapp’s invitation, Paolo visited Paris in November 1973 and has never left.In Paris Paolo started working as a reporter for the Huppert Agency but little by little, through his friends, he began to approach fashion photography. The photographers who really interested him then were reporters. At that moment he didn’t know much about fashion or fashion photography. Only later he discovered the work of Avedon, Penn, Newton, Bourdin and many others.The British photographer Lawrence Sackmann took Paolo on as his assistant in 1974. « Sackmann was very difficult. Most assistants only lasted a week before running away. But he taught me everything I needed to know in order to become a professional photographer. Sackmann taught me creativity. He was always trying new things even if he did always use the same camera and flash set-up. He was almost military-like in his approach to preparation for a shoot. But he always used to say ‘your tripod and your camera must be well-fixed but your eyes and mind should be free’”. Paolo endured Sackmann for nine months before starting on his own with small jobs here and there for magazines like Elle and Depeche Mode until Marie Claire published his first major fashion story. paoloroversi.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Korravai Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Paolo rocks~thanks PV!!!!! :heart: :heart: :heart: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 UK Vogue October 1993 'Tinker Tailoring' Model: Nadja Auermann Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 French Marie Claire BIS Fall/Winter 1991/92 'Une Femme Fatale' Model: Nadja Auermann Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Vogue Italia December 2005 "An Attitude" Model: Gemma Ward Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 The New York Times T Style Magazine Women's Fall 2008 "Chic-a-Boo" Model: Guinevere van Seenus Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Vogue Italia September 2008 "The Magic of Chic" Model: Unknown Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Vogue Italia September 2008 "A Singular Beauty" Model: Guinevere van Seenus Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Vogue Italia October 2008 "Singular Way" Model: Sasha Pivovarova Photographed by Paolo Roversi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layla90 Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Hmmm, I don't really know if I like his work....sure, it's magical, but....BUT I LOVE Guerlain's Shalimar parfum commercial directed by him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 US Vogue August 2006 "Billon Dollar Babies" Stars: Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen Photographed by Paolo Roversi Source: http://claire.belliard.free.fr/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Waiting in Vain (Medusa) March 1995 Star: Annie Lennox Photographed by Paolo Roversi http://claire.belliard.free.fr/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogue Girl Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Vogue Hommes 1993 Star: Vanessa Paradis Photographed by Paolo Roversi http://claire.belliard.free.fr/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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