Fulvio Roiter

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Fulvio Roiter in 1953, photo by Paolo Monti

Fulvio Roiter (born November 1, 1926 in Meolo ; † April 18, 2016 in Venice ) was an Italian photographer who worked in the field of travel photography . He became internationally known in the 1950s through illustrated books about Venice. He was considered one of the best Italian photographers of the post-war period.

life and work

Roiter grew up in Meolo, a municipality in the province of Venice . He was a trained chemist . Since 1947 Roiter worked as a freelance photographer; he acquired the necessary knowledge self-taught. In 1948 - according to other sources, in 1949 - he joined the La Gondola di Venezia photography community founded by Paolo Monti . Roiter worked mostly in black and white for two decades ; At the beginning of the 1970s he switched to color photography.

In 1954 Roiter's first book Venise À Fleur D'Eau was published in Lausanne , which made him famous around the world. In 1955 he produced the illustrated book Ombrie for the Swiss publisher Editions Clairfontaine . Terre de St. François with photographs from Umbria that were related to Francis of Assisi . The book was awarded the Prix ​​Nadar in France in 1956 . In the following years Roiter made extensive trips through Europe and South America. He regularly published the resulting recordings in illustrated books. From 1968 Roiter worked for the Zurich publishing house Atlantis , for which he produced illustrated books on South America, Africa and Asia. In 1977, Essere Venezia (German title: "Traumhaftes Venedig") was Roiter's most commercially successful book, with a total print run of over 600,000 copies. In total, Roiter published more than 70 illustrated books.

Internationally, Roiter's work is primarily associated with Venice. The daily La Repubblica honored him in an obituary as “the photographer who invented romantic Venice.” His pictures have been exhibited internationally many times. They illustrate numerous works of fiction, including some editions of Donna Leon's Venice crime novels .

Roiter was married. He died after a short illness at the age of 89 in a hospital in Venice.

Works (selection)

  • Fulvio Roiter: Italy: Impressions , Grünwald Amber-Verlag 1988, ISBN 3-922954-07-3
  • Fulvio Roiter, Andrea Zanzotto: Dreamlike Venice , Schroll Verlag Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3703104770
  • Fulvio Roiter, Goffredo Parise: The Venice Lagoon , Schroll Verlag Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3703104916

literature

Roberto Mutti: Fulvio Roiter , Verlag Bruno Mondadori, 2012, ISBN 978-8861596689

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: Morto il photographer Fulvio Roiter: "Se ne va uno dei grandi dell'immagine". www.corrieredelveneto.it, April 19, 2016, accessed April 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ "Il fotografo che" inventò "la Venezia più romantica". Obituary of April 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Roiter, Fulvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Meolo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2016
Place of death Venice