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Joseph Beuys, Cuma 1985 Robert Rauschenberg in Villa Volpicelli, Posillipo 1987 Francesco Clemente at Madre Museum 2006 McDermott & McGough and David Bowes at Villa Volpicelli, Posillipo 1986 Marina Abramovich, Galleria Morra 1975 Alberto Burri's Grande Cretto Vernissage, Museo di Capodimonte 1978 Dan Flavin Installation, Galleria Trisorio 1974 Hermann Nitsch, aktion n.45, Galleria Morra 1974 Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol and Lucio Amelio, press conference 1980 Joseph Beuys, press conference 1980 Lucio Amelio and Andy Warhol, City Hall Cafè, Napoli 1980 Leopoldo Mastelloni, City Hall Cafè, Napoli 1980 Barry White/Piazza del Plebiscito - Souvenirs d'Italia series 2006 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 1978 - 1985 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Landscape #1 2007 - 2009 Landscape #2 2007 - 2009 Landscape #4 2007 - 2009 Landscape #3 2007 - 2009 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 2003 - 2009 16641664166... 2007 Untitled 2003 - 2009 Untitled 1985 - 2010 Untitled 2010 Roofs 1985 - 2010 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 1969 Untitled 1987 - 2008 Untitled 1989 - 2008 "Indietro nel tempo" 1989 - 2008 Untitled 1989 - 1998 Set del film “Gorbaciòf” di Stefano Incerti, nella foto Toni Servillo 2009 Set del film “Armandino e il Madre” di Valeria Golino, nella foto Denis Nikolie. 2010 Set del film “Fuoco su di me” di Lamberto Lambertini 2004 Set del film “Il divo” di Paolo Sorrentino 2007 Acquapark 2007 Magic World 2010 Snoopy's rest 2 2007 Villaricca 2007 Franco, actor 2003 Franco, surgeon 2003 Pasquale, meccanico 2003 Vincenzo, pescivendolo 2003 Untitled (Naples, Via Partenope) 2010 Untitled (Naples, Via Nazario Sauro) 2010 Untitled (Naples, Marechiaro) 2010 Untitled (Trittico Via Caracciolo) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°1 (LA BELLA ‘MBRIANA) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°5 (IL MARINAIO AMERICANO) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°7 (LA BELLA CHIARA) 2010 Vedrai, andrà tutto bene - Donn'Anna 2008

Luciano Ferrara

Untitled

1979 - 1985

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As freelance press photographer, he has been documenting the struggles of social and political movements in Naples and in the rest of the World since the Seventies, working for both Italian and foreign press. He published a book and worked on a touring exhibition about the human conditions on the fringe of reality: the youth protest, the Neapolitan factories and the unemployed, the No-global movement. They were both titled Un altro mondo è possibile (Another world is possible) (Another world is possible). His full-frontal black and white style, together with the trust and empathy of the portrayed subject are the instruments appointed to carry on a visual research concerning minorities. For thirty years, he has hung around with the femminielli from via Toledo, Rettifilo and Sanità and has captured them into images: Res and Bis - a double thing - a distinctively Neapolitan phenomenon deriving from a folk tradition which has been testified even by Virgil and for this reason something different from the common transsexual prostitutes who are typical of the contemporary metropolis. They strike a pose, with an impudent look directly into the camera, which develops into a rough and unaffected snap: the pressing promiscuity of these photos could seem to come out from the avant-garde magazines of the late Nineties, like I-D or The Face, or to emerge from the Young British Artists’ sensation. Yet, it’s part of the history and life of Naples.

Cimitile 1950
Luciano Ferrara has been, for over thirty years, a costant presence in Naples that describes a city far from the rhetoric of the commonplaces. His photography is elegant and it ...
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