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Alessandro D'Urso - CONTRASTO
Contact: | Alessandro D'Urso |
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Tel.: | +39 06 328281 |
Fax: | +39 06 32828240 |
E-Mail: | international:annalisasalsano-asalsano@contrasto.it |
Web: | http://www.contrasto.it/eng/photographers/dettaglio.asp?idf=530&b=1 |
"Neapolitan, Alessandro is a 36 years old, living in
Rome.
He is working as a portraitist between Rome and Milan.
He started working on 'Moda' and 'King' in 1989 and he
collaborated with these two magazines until they closed in
1997. During this period he produced more than 100 reportage
and at the same time he had published and he is still
publishing on the main mastheads.
He followed on tour Italian and foreign musicians and singers,
producing more than 30 CD and live book covers.
He had produced national advertising campaigns, like American
Express, RTL102.5, Integree'.
He also is a film director, he performed videoclip, specials,
backstage and shorts.
Although he is really close to the music world, he realises
portraits of cultural, spectacles, TV personalities and most of
all cinema personalities.
He joined Contrasto in 2001."
"Contrasto is a unique enterprise in the field of photography. Contrasto was born in the 80's to be a point of reference for quality photojournalism.
The agency's photographers, in addition to its close contact with the information and culture worlds, allows Contrasto to be a leader in the field of author photography.
Its vast range of activities (production and distribution of images for journalism, advertising and image consulting, fashion and publishing, archives available online) is guaranteed by the various resources it draws from; Most notably Magnum, the prestigious agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Contrasto is publishing house as well, working to realize photographic books, and exhibits in cooperation with Italy's public and private institutions.
The high level of Contrasto photographers' amounts to a gallery of unique images suitable for collecting purposes as well."