Alessandro Bertolotti

author · photographer

Italian^[1] b. 1960^[1]

Alessandro Bertolotti is an Italian writer and photographer born in 1960. He has spent twenty-five years working as a director of variety shows for the Italian television channel RAI. As a photographer, he specializes in female nudes, and his work is included in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. He is recognized as one of Europe's largest collectors of erotic books and nude photographs. His extensive collection has been exhibited internationally, including at the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris in 2007. Bertolotti has authored several works on erotic literature, cinema, and photography, notably 'Books of Nudes' (2007), which features studies by both famous and obscure photographers who have explored the naked body as a subject.^[1,2,3]

nude photography
erotic literature
cinema

Works by Alessandro Bertolotti

1990 Capri, la natura e la storia Fratelli Palombi · book · Italian · ISBN 978-88-7621-351-9
2007 Nudo. I libri fotografici dal 1895 a oggi Contrasto · book · Italian · ISBN 978-88-6965-087-1
2007 Books of nudes Abrams Books · book · English · ISBN 978-0-8109-9444-7
2012 Curiosa; la bibliothèque érotique Editions de la Martinière · book · French · ISBN 978-2-7324-5274-6
2015 Guida alla letteratura erotica: dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri Odoya · book · Italian · ISBN 978-88-6288-284-2
2017 Guida al cinema erotico & porno. Dal cinema muto a oggi Odoya · book · Italian · ISBN 978-88-6288-333-7

Exhibitions

2007 Livres de nus, une anthologie la collection d'Alessandro Bertolotti Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris · group

References

Alessandro Bertolotti. Wikipedia link
Livres de nus, une anthologie la collection d'Alessandro Bertolotti. Maison européenne de la photographie. 2007 link
Landi, Ann. May contain nudity. ARTnews. 2008