In 1949, a boy fell in love with a Leica III C camera; he really did not know how it worked, but he thought that it was a beautiful object. He would go on to publish more than 500 pictures in which figures from the worlds of art, culture, fashion and cinema, alongside ordinary people, are presented in a way that tells the story of Italy as it emerges from the ashes of the Second World War; these were featured in the famous weekly magazine Il Mondo, which was directed by Mario Pannunzio in the 1950s. Among the subjects of these famous pictures are Pier Paolo Pasolini at parties in Roman palaces, Tennessee Williams on the beach with his dog, Anna Magnani with her son, Kim Novak ironing in a room at the Grand Hotel, Rome, a family in front of the sea in Rimini, Salvatore Quasimodo, Sofia Loren joking around with Marcello Mastroianni in the Cinecittą studios, Brigitte Bardot, Charlotte Rampling, Alberto Moravia, Federico Fellini, Yves Montand, and the faces of distressed people at Palmiro
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