Year: 2018

Pages: 159

Publisher: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; Sabinae

ISBN: 9788898623877

Series: Quaderni della Cineteca nazionale. Nuova serie ; 4

Description

The issue of «Bianco e nero», a historical magazine published by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, is entirely dedicated to Piero Tosi, one of the greatest costume designers in the history of cinema of all time. He has been one of the most long-established teachers of the School of Cinema of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, namely from 1988 to 2016: twenty-eight years of intense activity. Tosi worked with Luchino Visconti (from Bellissima, in 1951, onwards), Luigi Zampa, Franco Brusati, Mauro Bolognini, Mario Soldati, Dino Risi, Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Antonio Pietrangeli, Marco Ferreri, Federico Fellini, Lina Wertmüller, Alberto Lattuada, Renato Castellani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, Fabio Carpi, Franco Zeffirelli, Gianni Amelio. He also worked in prose theatre, opera and television, not only as a costume designer, but also as set decorator and hairdresser.
The monographic issue of «Bianco e nero» examines the multifaceted and vast experience of the great costume designer Piero Tosi, five times Academy Awards nominee and later Academy Honorary Award recipient.