User:LCGH/Carlo Cisventi

He is considered "one of the most relevant figures in the italian photo-reporting of the second half of XXth century ".

Biography
Carlo Cisventi was born on the 6th of September 1929 in Garbagnate Milanese (Italy).

He started his Activity as a photographer in 1947 with Federico Patellani at Pat Photo Pictures. He intensely frequented the lively artistic and cultural environment of the milanese Brera district, then frequented by Ugo Mulas, Mario Dondero, Giulia Niccolai, Carlo Bavagnoli and Alfa Castaldi.

He has published in numerous periodicals, making his debut in 1954 with the photo story "Cronache della Bassa" on "Il Politecnico" with texts by Emilio Tadini. In the early years he published for the magazines Vie Nuove and L'Espresso, and then devoted himself, in the two-year period 1954-56, to photo-documentaries for the magazine Cinema Nuovo. Among the other magazines with which he collaborated there areIllustrazione italiana, Domus, Paris Match, Life, Tempo, Le Ore, L'Europeo. Among his first reports are those on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on the revolts in Algeria (1958).

Trained in Milan, a friend of Luciano Bianciardi, Carlo Cisventi collaborated with numerous artists. Among his collaborations we remember in 1961 the section on the show for the national exhibition in Turin "Italia '61", an exhibition of photocollages for the Milan Triennale in 1964 together with Roberto Crippa, an experimental film with Hans Richter in 1970.

In 1971 he participated to an exhibition at the MOMA in New York.

Part of his archive is now preserved at CSAC in Parma (Italy).

He died in Milan on the 21st of May 1988.