Tra natura, luce e astrazione: modulazioni del colore nella fotografia di Giorgio Lotti

Abstract

In parallel with his international career as a photojournalist, Giorgio Lotti (1937) has developed a decades-long exploration of photographic abstraction, hitherto unstudied. Stimulated by Ernst Haas’s intuitions on the combination of color and movement and receptive to the work of Italian photographers such as Franco Fontana, since the 1960s Lotti has investigated sea and lake surfaces as the most suitable scenarios for capturing chromatic and textural effects of light that question the indexical character of the medium. As a development of this line of research, beginning in the early 1980s he has experimented with color and multiple exposures in the portrayal of 20th century artists.

DOI: 10.4424/rsf2023-8