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Poetic Tuscany
Photography Tour
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begins and ends in Florence
A Few Words About the Artist
Andrea Rontini lives near Florence. He has followed his
passion for photography for some time and has obtained
recognition for it all over Italy. He started his professional
career during the 80's when he joined the photographical
groups of the town and started winning prizes and being
recognized at national and international contests. His
pictures were, from the very beginning, "particular" in
respect to what was conceived as landscape up to that moment:
the shots, the cuts, yesterday like today, blend in a unique
soft and suffused representation.
During the years he has closely examined colours, but
his photographical style, of which it has been said, "is
capable of colouring the silence," (E. Gaiotto 1993) has
remained unmistakable.
In time, Mr. Rontini gained other recognitions: in 2000
he was asked by Minolta to attend the Photo Show of Rome.
In October 2002 he was part of the Italian team who won
the world cup for the colour printing of landscapes at
the 20th edition of the biennial FIAP in Belgium.
He has been publishing calendars of the Tuscan countryside
since 1997. He also published two books: Toscana Poetica (Poetic
Tuscany) (1999) and La Fotografia del Chianti (Photography
in Chianti) (2003). His works have been published in photographical
reviews and Italian and foreign periodicals. He has had
photographic commissions for the writer Dacia Maraini and
the film director Mario Monicelli.
Abroad his works were exhibited in United States (1998
in Sonoma, CA, 2004 in Litchfield, CT) and in France. In
Italy his works can always be seen at his personal gallery
in Castellina in Chianti (SI) where it is possible to admire
his beautiful Cibachrome pictures printed in limited edition.
All his jobs and his finished projects come from a deep
passion for photography, and they are made in the hope
of upgrading photography, both in Italy and abroad, to
the form of art that it deserves.
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