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.

These two photographs are emblematic of the relationship that Pedriali established with great artists. In a photograph Pasolini observed and filmed from afar as per his express wishes: he appears naked in his bedroom inside the buen retreat of the Torre di Chia in the Viterbo area (real name Castello di Corte Casale) consisting of a house with a glass roof that illuminated the studio and a non-habitable tower. Here Pasolini worked on his novel "Petrolio" planning to accompany it with the photographs of Pedriali who, in his daily scrutinizing it, had captured – the photographer explained – his profound solitude. Dino Pedriali had started working in the art world with the Turin gallery owner Anselmino and in this environment he approached photography thanks to Man Ray, whose assistant he was and from whom he learned his first secrets. The photographs in which he portrays him in 1970 are in Man Ray's volume Les heures heureses.