Roberto Polillo

 
Roberto Polillo (born 1946) is an Italian artist photographer. He started making photographs in the Sixties, when, for a dozen years, he took photographs in over a hundred jazz concerts. Being the son of Arrigo Polillo, a well known jazz critic, historian and concert organizer, he had the unique opportunity of building a fairly complete gallery of the most important jazz musicians of the time. These images are well known, and have been shown in many personal exhibitions, books, magazines, CDs and blogs.
Back to photography after a professional involvement in software engineering, as a university professor and an entrepreneur in the early Seventies, he has developped a large personal research in fineart travel photography. His goal is to represent the atmosphere of the places which he visits and that fascinate him, the particular "genius loci" that makes them unique. To this aim, the images are captured with long exposure times while moving the camera (ICM - Intentional Camera Movement technique). The subsequent digital editing does not change the image, but only emphasizes its colors and contrast. The final result shows the "magics" of the places, making visible aspects that are already present in the photographed reality, but, so to speak, in a latent form. The resulting images are often fascinating, completely different from traditional travel photography.

(external link : rpolillo.photoshelter.com)
 
Roberto Polillo - Jazz dietro le quinte
2022
Italian edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The photographic archives of Roberto Polillo who abundantly documented the concerts of the greatest American jazz musicians in Italy in the years 1960-1970.
Roberto Polillo - Between the visible and the invisible - Exploring the world through Intentional Camera Movement photography
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The story of a photographer's journey to capture the soul of a place through Intentional Camera Movement photography.


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