Latest / 70 80 / SETTANTAxOTTANTA: Anni 60-70. Quando ci facevamo i selfie nelle cabine fototessera
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- 1:10Welcome to 70x80, the section of 7080 .it that
- 1:14deepens the topics discussed on the portal. I'm
- 1:17with the journalist Enzo Mauri who introduces
- 1:20the topic today. Good morning, today I'm talking
- 1:22to you about an alternative to cell phones, at
- 1:25least as far as photos are concerned. A few decades
- 1:27ago, in the absence of cell phones equipped with
- 1:30a camera, it was difficult to resist the temptation
- 1:32to take a selfie, being one of the few means
- 1:35available, cheap and fast, the photo booths.
- 1:51For 80 years, Americans have used photo booths
- 1:54to make glorified mugshots, records of an evening
- 1:56best forgotten, and even art. As the technology
- 2:00has changed... The original photo booth has become
- 2:02a relic of 20th century pop Americana. The original
- 2:08photo booth has become a relic of 20th century
- 2:18pop Americana. in black and white in 8 minutes.
- 2:32Among the many artists attracted by the photomaton
- 2:34there was also Andy Warhol who used the photos
- 2:36to be published on magazines, as in the case
- 2:39of the portrait of Ethel Skull, wife of a magnate.
- 2:42Andy Warhol brought the woman to Times Square
- 2:44and made her stand in a photo booth for 100 shots.
- 2:48In the following 36 he chose photos that were
- 2:50engraved on paintings colored with bright tones.
- 3:00the lavish movie palace and the private peep
- 3:02show booth. Of course, America's Love Affair
- 3:04with the photo booth started here. www .lexmcl
- 3:10.it In Italy, the first models of photo booths
- 3:13were installed in 1962 by the company Dede Mediariccia,
- 3:18founded by Dan David and Pieri Filippo Ball.
- 3:21As a location, the Colonna Gallery was chosen,
- 3:23today Gallery Alberto Surdi, in the center of
- 3:25Rome. It should be noted that at the time photo
- 3:28booths did not take separate photos, but a strip
- 3:31in black and white. The novelty was immediately
- 3:33successful, so much so that in front of the first
- 3:35photo booths, tens of meters were formed. to
- 3:39use them. In 1972 Franco Vaccari, at the Venice
- 3:52Biennale, presented an exhibition in real time,
- 3:55a photo booth where the visitor became an artist.
- 3:58The final work included more than 40 ,000 strips,
- 4:01that is 160 ,000 poses. photo mechanical portraits.
- 4:10He really exploited the photo booth. Where were
- 4:13the photo booths in the 60s that Andy would have
- 4:15been sending people to? Well, these were mostly
- 4:18very near here on 42nd Street. There were arcades
- 4:21where there were many photo booths. Grazie a
- 4:48Denzo Mauri per il tema odierno. Appuntamento
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