Carlo Di Palma

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Carlo Di Palma (born April 17, 1925 in Rome , † July 9, 2004 there ) was an Italian cameraman .

Life

Di Palma began in 1942 as camera assistant to Aldo Tonti and Domenico Scala and worked in this position for about ten years with the best cameramen of the time. Between 1951 and 1954 he worked as a camera operator for some now forgotten films, but also for Carlo Lizzani's Achtung! Banditi! . Matured as head cameraman in 1956, he made numerous notable films in the decades that followed, in which his experimental technique already came to fruition with black and white films (such as Kapò or Omicron ), but finally with the breakthrough of color film. Works like The Red Desert or Blow Up (both by Michelangelo Antonioni ) benefited decisively from Di Palma's use of chromatography .

In the mid-1970s, Di Palma also directed; Among his three film comedies, his debut Teresa la ladra (1973) based on the novel by Dacia Maraini , in which his then partner Monica Vitti played the leading role, stands out.

In 1983 Di Palma went to the US , where he became Woody Allen's regular cameraman .

He has been awarded the Nastro d'Argento Prize by Italian film critics four times . In 2003 he received a European Film Award for his outstanding contribution to cinema. The award for the best camera work is named after him. He worked with most of the major directors in Italian cinema.

Filmography (selection)

camera

Director

  • 1973: Theresa the thief (Teresa la ladra)
  • 1975: Lucky Girls (Qui comincia l'avventura) (also screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 155
  2. ilcorto.eu (ital.)