Press release

 September 24 th 2011 open in Bergamo Shots Gallery, a new gallery devoted to photo. The opening with Mario De Biasi. Give me thousand kisses, 24 photos vintage - print in black and white and 6 color of one of the greatest living Italian photographers.

The 30 photos of Mario De Biasi, in show actually to November 12, are been selected on the base of a classical theme but always actual, the kiss, that represents the passion and whole the affection, the two essential components of the life.

The new gallery, conceived and directed by Raffaella Ferrari, it will be center of shows and it will deal him with formation through the organization of courses of photo, raced that besides the aspect of photographic techniques they will also propose always a part of history of the photo through the great names of the photo and the historical phases of the photojournalism.

Mario De Biasi (1923, Sois, Belluno), is the correct man to the correct place, defined by the foreign colleagues "the crazy Italian" for audacity and obstinacy (Budapest 1956), he begins to photograph in 1945 with an instrument recovered among the rubbles of Norimberga, where it is found deported. To Milan (where alive and he works) it has his/her first personal show in 1948, in 1953 it enters to make part of the editing of Epoca, with which it realizes, in more than thirty years, 132 covers and innumerable reportages from the whole world to demonstration of the poliedrico and versatile point of view that more themes he has touched with formidable made narrative. He exposed in the show "The Universalistis" to the Photokina of Colony in 1972, the 1994 show "The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943. 1968" to the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, in 2000 the great retrospective to the Arengario in Milan, in 2007 to the Paris Photo and in 2008 to the show on the "Italian Neoralism" of Madrid. He is in the volume The Faces of Photography: Encounters with 50 Master Photographers of the 20th Century. He has published over 100 photographic books. He received honors  Erich Salomon Preis prize, to Colony in the 1973, in 1982 the prize "Saint-Vincent" of journalism. In 1994 it is the time of the "Friuli Venezia Prize Julia" to Spilimbergo and and to the festival of Arles he has been winning all over the world with other twelve famous photographers. Of 2003 the title of Teacher of the Italian Photo, maximum honor of the Federation Italian Photographic Associations. December 7 th 2006, according to the suggestion of the alderman to the Culture Vittorio Sgarbi, Milan confers him the gold Ambrogino. When it doesn't photograph, it draws and it.