Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen on a family vacation. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knapp led him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he first encountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when he became an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him the photographer’s craft.
Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film to capture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability, and romanticism. Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated color, he collaborates regularly with the world’s top supermodels and designers, and has shot for many leading fashion magazines and international ad campaigns. This title in the Photofiles series brings together Roversi’s signature images from his entire career in an attractive pocket-sized edition, celebrating the work of one of the most influential photographers of his generation.
Reviews
An economical way to build a library of great photography. Each of the 50 books in the series focuses on a single photographer and features 60-plus pictures, an essay, a biography and a bibliography. The pictures are perfectly readable in spite of their small size; the selections are retrospective, so readers get bits of each artist’s entire career.
— William Meyers, The Wall Street Journal
Contributors
Chiara Bardelli-Nonino
Author
Chiara Bardelli Nonino is the features director at Harper’s Bazaar Italia. She has collaborated, among others, with Foam Magazine, Aperture, the British Journal of Photography, PhMuseum, The Photocaptionist, Flash Art Italia, Looking on, Canon Student Development Program, Metronom Gallery, Red Hook Labs, Marsèll Paradise, and Creative Review.
