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