Online Auction by pic© and Paddle 8

"ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY"

till February 4th, 2014

An auction curated by pic©- the Photography Italian Culture Capital, incorporating luminous, iconic works by the most renowned Italian photographers. Featuring artists whose work has developed a distinct language and influenced generations of photographers to create a unique point of view.

The first themed auction on ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY presents the most relevant photographers from Italy: Olivo Barbieri, Ferdinando Scianna, Mario Giacomelli, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Piergiorgio Branzi and many others.

Paddle8 is an online auction house, founded by Gilkes and Julka and funded by Damien Hirst, Mellon family, Von Furstenberg and others. Paddle8 auctions are connecting buyers and sellers of fine art and collectibles across the world with monthly themed auctions, and benefit auctions in collaboration with non-profits.

View complete auction: paddle8.com/auctions/italianphotography

ABOUT pic©

pic© is a new – No venue – Gallery made up of a long-experienced professional team from museums, foundations and big private companies, from Capri, Turin, Milan, Rome and Naples with the goal to promote Italian artistic photography in the world.

pic© promotes its artists through agreements with galleries around the world, allowing collectors from every country to know the quality of the Italian art.

pic© ARTISTS

Since the sixties, Italian photography, has had a period where it has bloomed considerably. The authors selected and represented by pic© are the absolute protagonists of that artistic adventure which conception of photography.
 They are authors who have experienced and reflected on a specific awareness of photography, dealing with the languages of contemporary art in the process. 
They are artists who inform the world, in particular of, the history of a country, Italy, in a time of great transformation. Through a narrative that is strongly linked with its ability to fascinate via the history of everything that could be considered Italian style.
 Our photographers have developed a real language and have influenced generations of young authors, created schools and oriented points of view.
 pic© works with many important artists including: Olivo Barbieri, Piergiorgio Branzi, Vincenzo Castella, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Franco Fontana, Maurizio Galimberti, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Nino Migliori, Ferdinando Scianna e Paolo Ventura.

pic© promotes its artists through agreements with galleries around the world, allowing international collectors to discover the quality of Italian Art.

For more informationa please visit: www.picc-image.org