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€ 1.000 - 1.500
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€ 800
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At auction on Wednesday 18 June 2025 at 16:00
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Vintage gelatin silver print
cm 40,2 x 29,8 | 15.8 x 11.7 in.
Dated and signed in black ink with photographer's fingerprint on the verso
These two photographs are emblematic of the relationship Pedriali established with Pasolini. The one in which the director, observed and filmed from a distance as per his express wishes, appears naked in his bedroom, was taken inside the buen ritiro of Torre di Chia in the Viterbo area (real name Castello di Corte Casale) composed of a house with a glass roof that illuminated the studio and a tower that was not habitable. Here Pasolini worked on his novel “Petrolio,” planning to accompany it with photographs by Pedriali, who, in his daily watching him, had caught - the photographer explained - its profound loneliness. Different is the story of the close-up that Pedriali himself remembers: the writer had placed himself in that beautiful pose with the close-up of his fist and the penetrating gaze but had remained there for very few seconds. Promptly, while changing the position of the camera from vertical to horizontal, the photographer had the promptness to take the shot that would also become iconic for a strange reason. The printer mistakenly scratched the negative with tweezers, so each print bears the marks of retouching like a scar on Pasolini's forehead.
cm 40,2 x 29,8 | 15.8 x 11.7 in.
Dated and signed in black ink with photographer's fingerprint on the verso
Literature
L. Inga Pin (edited by), Dino Pedriali, Raron Book, Milan, 1978
D. Pedriali (edited by), Pier Paolo Pasolini, fotografie di Dino Pedriali, Johan&Levi, Monza, 2011
Dino Pedriali (Rome 1950 - 2021) began his career at a very young age and, working at Il Fauno gallery in Turin, frequented the art world. He thus became Man Ray's assistant whose Parisian home-studio he documented, collaborated with Andy Warhol, and portrayed with great intensity figures such as De Chirico, Moravia, and Fellini as anonymous young people with a style so intense that he was defined as Caravaggesque by critic Peter Weiermair. Despite his many works and international exhibitions, Pedriali has become part of photography history for his association with Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose last photographs he took the day before his tragic death. D. Pedriali (edited by), Pier Paolo Pasolini, fotografie di Dino Pedriali, Johan&Levi, Monza, 2011
These two photographs are emblematic of the relationship Pedriali established with Pasolini. The one in which the director, observed and filmed from a distance as per his express wishes, appears naked in his bedroom, was taken inside the buen ritiro of Torre di Chia in the Viterbo area (real name Castello di Corte Casale) composed of a house with a glass roof that illuminated the studio and a tower that was not habitable. Here Pasolini worked on his novel “Petrolio,” planning to accompany it with photographs by Pedriali, who, in his daily watching him, had caught - the photographer explained - its profound loneliness. Different is the story of the close-up that Pedriali himself remembers: the writer had placed himself in that beautiful pose with the close-up of his fist and the penetrating gaze but had remained there for very few seconds. Promptly, while changing the position of the camera from vertical to horizontal, the photographer had the promptness to take the shot that would also become iconic for a strange reason. The printer mistakenly scratched the negative with tweezers, so each print bears the marks of retouching like a scar on Pasolini's forehead.
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