Augusto Meneses Miniaty

Augusto Meneses Miniaty (born July 12, 1931 in Madrid ) is an international photographer and artist who has captured outstanding personalities from world politics on celluloid over the past 60 years . He was once the assistant to the American-Russian star photographer Lee Boltin (1917–1991) and worked for numerous well-known newspapers (Axel Springer (Bunte), Paris Match, Observer, Life Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Queen Magazine, Marie-Claire, GENTE, Jour de France and much more). He is five languages ​​and has worked on all continents.

Life

Augusto Meneses Miniaty was born as the second son of Carmen Miniaty. His father was a writer and journalist and for political reasons the family moved to Paris , where Augusto and his sister and brother experienced the Second World War in all its nuances as a child. His mother supported the family as a fashion journalist. When the family went to Portugal for two years and then back to Madrid after the war, his father was arrested and imprisoned by the Franco regime in January 1945 . Augusto was drafted into the military shortly before he was 20 years old, but soon fled to Australia , where he began a new life and in 1954 married his first wife, an Australian. In 1961 he moved to Egypt and in the same year met star photographer Lee Boltin, who discovered him and also trained him. The two were close friends during their lifetime. Augusto Meneses began his career as a photographer as an assistant to Lee Boltin, who shortly thereafter initiated him into the field of the reproduction of historical manuscripts and thus also became the first photographer to use the two manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci , which were believed to be lost and unpublished, for the LIFE magazine was able to photograph. In the following years traveled Meneses throughout the world to his charismatic portraits of politicians and VIPs to shoot and to make many friends, but also to experience unique stories with the people of this world, which he only late in his biography on paper brought. Augusto Meneses has a daughter from his second marriage to his late Egyptian wife and now lives in Cannes with his wife Maria de la Torre .

Services

• Augusto Meneses Miniaty documented a piece of world history with his early photos, but at the same time he depicts people not only as dignitaries or political representatives, but also makes them appear apparently “more human” and “closer” and fallible by choosing unusual perspectives.
• In 1967 he was the first photographer allowed to take pictures of the complete works of Leonardo da Vinci's long-lost notebook.
• In 2010 at the age of almost 80 with a severe lung disease that only allowed him to breathe with a portable oxygen device , he created the stalactite cave color cycle in the People's Republic of China , which he created with the most modern technology in an immense blaze of light and colors.

Works

• Photographs in catalog e.g. Augusto Meneses Miniaty, Spazio81, April 2011
• Winston Churchill 1959
• John F Kennedy 1960
• Che Guevara 1960
• Fidel Castro 1960
• Nikita Krusciov 1960
• Juan Charlos 1962
• Ferdinando Marcos 1965
• Free 1966
• Jacky Kennedy 1966
• Tony Curtis 1966
• Frank Sinatra 1966
• Grace Kelly 1966
• Geraldine Chaplin 1968
• Arafat 1969
• Farah Diba 1980

Place of storage: Archives Hamburg, Berlin; last exhibition October 20, 2011 Amy, via Lovanio, Milano Italy

literature

• Catalog z. B. Augusto Meneses Miniaty, Spazio81, April 2011
• Time & Life Books, Daily Mirror, Time Magazine, Bunte Illustrierte, Paris Match, Jour de France

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1967 March 3 LIFE Magazine - Lost Notebooks Leonardo Da Vinci. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 22, 2014 ; Retrieved September 5, 2012 . 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.  
2. ↑ Amy-d - Arte Spazio. Retrieved September 5, 2012 .