Pino Bertelli

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Pino Bertelli (born April 23, 1943 in Piombino , Tuscany , Italy ) is an Italian photographer , filmmaker , film producer , film critic and author .

Life

Bertelli was a steel worker in a factory in his hometown from 1960 to 1986. Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini , he began to photograph the structural change in Piombino. Here he took care of the people of the city and became a street photographer . Since the early 1980s he has been known as a writer who dealt with periods and characters in film history. Other publications are the result of his travels around the Mediterranean and Africa.

In 2002 he was commissioned by the regional government of Tuscany to take photos of people at their workplace under the title La Toscana del lavoro, thus documenting the structural change in the region, among other things.

Films about the photographer

  • 1993: Jürgen Czwienk : Pino Bertelli. Fotografare con i piedi (taking photos with the feet).
  • Short film by Bruno Tramontano : Adoro solo l'oscurita e le ombre .

Prizes and awards

Exhibitions

  • 2007: Mannheim - Portrait of a city in the Congress Center Rosengarten , Mannheim. Catalog.
  • 2015: Uomo e Macchina. Work in Tuscany , LWL-Industriemuseum, Hattingen. Catalog.

Publications

  • Jean Vigo 1905-1934. Cinema della rivolta . 1995.
  • with Gianna Ciao Pointer: Marlene Dietrich : Dal taccuino di due disertori dello schermo . TraccEdizioni, Piombino 1994, ISBN 88-7205-078-2 .
  • Sahrawi . Un popolo esiliato , with texts by Dario Fo, among others. 2001.
  • Chernobyl. Ritratti dall'infanzia contaminata . Tracce, Pistoia 2003.
  • Burkina Faso . Ritratti dal popolo degli uomini integri . 2005.
  • Ladro di cinema. Saggio su Luigi Faccini . 2008.
  • Tina Modotti . Sulla fotografia sovversiva. Dalla poetica della rivolta all'etica dell utopia . 2008.
  • Volto del Mediterraneo , with a contribution by Predrag Matvejević . 2009.
  • Jean Vigo. Cinema della rivolta e dell'amour fou . 2009.
  • Pikiéko. Il villagio che adottò un uomo. Burkina Faso . 2010.
  • in preparation: Uomo e Macchina. Man and machine: Pino Bertelli out and about in Tuscany . Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1413-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hattingen shows the other Tuscany, photographed by Pino Bertelli in FAZ on August 4, 2015, page 11