Arturo Bragaglia

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Arturo Bragaglia (born January 7, 1893 in Frosinone , † January 21, 1962 in Rome ) was an Italian photographer and actor .

Life

Bragaglia was the son of Francesco Bragaglia , who ran the film production company " Cines ", and the brother of theater director Anton Giulio and film director Carlo Ludovico . He took an early interest in photography - thanks to his father's profession, he had free access to film recordings from childhood - and was particularly interested in technical innovations in the development of photo material and exposure technology as well as the printing of images. Together with brother Anton Giulio, he developed the idea of ​​the Fotografia Futurista and the Foto-dinamica and thus produced numerous photographs of silent film actors, published articles and essays on photo theory. In the 1920s (his brother had already turned to directing) he opened a photo studio in the Roman commercial street “Via Condotti”, which was later destroyed in a flood, including all archive material, and took part in important photography competitions such as the first nationwide photo competition Rome 1930, the exhibition Fotografica Futurista 1932 in Trieste and the great national exhibition 1933, again in the capital. From the mid-1930s, Bragaglia also worked as a still photographer in the Cinecittà .

Quite coincidentally and as a courtesy to the family friend, director Oreste Biancoli , the rather small and skinny Bragaglia took on a supporting role in his Stasera alle 11 in 1937 . From then on, especially from 1940, he played the sprightly older, sometimes confused, clumsy gentleman in numerous films, from the caretaker to the schumacher, from the meticulous accountant to the impatient believer to the meek slipper hero. Among his best roles in the improvisation-loving actor are the tramp in Vittorio De Sica's The Miracle of Milan , the real-life photographer in Luchino Viscontis Bellissima (both 1951) or the helpless victim of the public prosecutor in an episode of Alessandro Blasetti's Altri tempi im Year later. Until his death, Bragaglia played almost 140 roles as one of the most sought-after supporting actors of the post-war period.

In the 1950s, Bragaglia was a few times part of the acting ensemble of the then common television broadcasts of comedies such as Il piacere dell'onestà under Franco Enriquez or Le avventure de Nicola Nickleby based on Charles Dickens . He gave courses in photography at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and ran several photo studios in Rome.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2Photo.org ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2photo.org
  2. ↑ Noemalab.eu
  3. ^ Bragaglia in the Enciclopedia Treccani
  4. ↑ Enrico Lancia, Article Arturo Bragaglia , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicchiani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rom, Gremese 1998, pp. 77/78
  5. ↑ Bragaglia at mymovies
personal data
SURNAME Bragaglia, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian photographer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Frosinone
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1962
Place of death Rome