Franco Fontana, master of photography and color, died at 92 in Modena. Born in Cognento on December 9, 1933, his works are preserved in over fifty museums worldwide. More than 400 exhibitions and 70 books have been dedicated to him. He received international awards and recognitions, signed many advertising campaigns (among others Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Snam, Robe di Kappa), collaborated on editorials with Time-Life, Vogue USA and Vogue France, Venerdì di Repubblica, Sette of Corriere della Sera, Frankfurten Allemagne, Times.
Ask the Sun
The questions are automatically suggested by 24Ore AI
based on the content viewed.
Read more Niger, gunfire and explosions in Niamey. Junta confirms: attempted coup
Since the 1970s, Fontana worked on researching an essential compositional style, based on color fields, transforming nature and landscape into abstract forms and almost geometric figures. With the monograph Skyline (1978), his art was internationally recognized. In 1999, for Craf and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, he taught photography to elementary school children in New York. He collaborated, among others, with the Centre Georges Pompidou, with the Ministries of Culture of France and Japan, and in 2006 he received an honorary degree in design from the Polytechnic University of Turin.
Read more Milan Housing Plan, the second extension arrives. The difficulties of the operators
