Lot 99: FERRUCCIO FERRONI (1920-2007)

FERRUCCIO FERRONI (1920-2007)
Ballerini (Dancers), August 1954
gelatin silver print
signed, titled and dated in ink, photographer's credit stamp and 'Ausstellugn/Österrich 1956' stamp (verso)
image/sheet 14 x 11in. (37.4 x 29.4cm.)

Subjektive Fotografie 2, Saarbrücken 1955;
La fotografia in Italia 1945-1975: Capolavori dalla collezione Paolo Morello, Forma, Milan, 2010, pl.29;
Italian Realism: Masterpieces from the Collection of Paolo Morello, Big Manezh, Moscow, 2011, pl. 62.

Ferruccio Ferroni, Immagini inventate: Circolo di confusione, Fermo 1999;
Paolo Morello (ed.), Ferruccio Ferroni: Carteggio 1952-1959, Istituto Superiore per la Storia della Fotografia, Palermo, 2004;
Ferruccio Ferroni, Fiaf, Turin, 2006;
Paolo Morello, La fotografia in Italia: 1945-1975, 2 voll., Contrasto, Rome, 2010;
Paolo Morello, La fotografia in Italia: 1945-1975, Capolavori dalla collezione Morello, Contrasto, Rome, 2010.

This image was honoured, very shortly after it was made, with inclusion by Dr Otto Steinert in his second 'Subjektive Fotografie' exhibition. It captures key aspects of experimental modernist post-war photography that Steinert was influential in promoting, notably a high contrast printing that abstracted the subject matter, and the use of deliberate blur to convey the idea of movement.