- Claudia Cardinale
Rome, 1959.
- Sophia Loren
Venice, 1955.
- Paul Newman
Venice, 1963.
- Brigitte Bardot
Venice, 1958.
- Jane Fonda
with Roger Vadim
and Peter Fonda
Venice, 1967.
- Jean Simmons
Venice Lido, 1950.
- Keith Richards
with Anita Pallenberg
Venice, 1967.
- Maria Callas
Venice Lido, 1956.
- Claudia Cardinale
Rome, 1959.
- Miguel Bosé
and his hound dog
Madrid, 1961
- Paul Newman
with Oriana Fallaci
Venice, 1963.
- Virna Lisi
Venice Lido, 1958.
- Rialto bridge
Venice, 1950s.
- Claudia Cardinale
Rome, 1959.
- Chet Baker
Lucca, 1961.
- Winter
Venice, 1947.
- Autumn
Venice, 1966.
- Summer
Venice, 1954.
- Periwinkle model
by Christian Dior
Venice, 1951.
- Sophia Loren
Rome, 1950s.
- Brigitte Bardot
Cannes, 1955.
- Christmas window
Comacchio, 1949.
The main photo Agency in Venice, 1947 - 1987.
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Where are these pictures from: the names of a lineage
1946 – Venetian photographer Dino Jarach sets up the INTERFOTO Photo Agency, whose reportages get immediate success in the photojournalism world: he shows famous people visiting Venice during the International Movie Festival, the Art Biennale or for leisure.
“Interfoto” had been Jarach’s alias published signature on since 1944: Racial Laws passed in 1938 by the fascist Italian government had made him stop photographing in that year. Jarach hires photographer Claudio Gallo and reporter/photographer Giselda Paulon.
Jarach moves to Milan and takes his INTERFOTO brand along, leaving its original archive to Giselda.
Dino Jarach
1956 – Giselda Paulon, as the new owner, renames the Agency as CAMERAFOTO. She hires photographer Duilio Stigher but then moves away from Venice after two more intense years of work and sells the Agency to entrepeneur Mirco Busatto who keeps Gallo and Stigher in.
1958 – Busatto turns the Agency’s name into CAMERAPHOTO. He adds to his team photoreporters Celio Scapin and Walter Stefani, who will work with him until the end.
1962 – Scapin, Stefani, Stigher and Gallo purchase the Agency. Their wonderful job through the next 15 years keeps boosting the Agency’s worldwide reputation and contacts: their images are published on most international press.
1978 – Scapin becomes the sole owner, shifting towards artwork reproduction and documentation of artwork restoration (ironically, artwork documentation had been one of the founder Dino Jarach’s first field 30 years before).
1987 – Scapin shuts the Agency down and splits his huge collection of images into two different Archives: Archivio Cameraphoto ARTE (artwork reproduction and restoration) and Archivio Cameraphoto EPOCHE which becomes the historical Archive, promoted here.
Scapin | Stefani | Stigher | Gallo
2010 – Carlo Pescatori buys rights on the whole CAMERAPHOTO EPOCHE Archive content and his Starsinvenice is born.
Negatives are scanned, scans are checked (scratches, dust, fingerprints… you name it), then captioned and finally shown online for publishing rights and Fine Art printing to customers all over the world. This way these shots are still alive.
Carlo Pescatori
Venice, 2009: I stumbled upon a wall of cardboard boxes packed with negatives.
Stunning images, most of them never seen online or unpublished. That wall was 3 layers of such boxes thick.
My job paid well and life was sweet; spring strolls and evening chats called me, my age was more about stabilizing than starting out and this really looked like a huge, long effort. But these B&W scenes on film and glass plates deserved being shown around.
Couldn’t help but buying them.
Carlo Pescatori.