PIANO DI SORRENTO - Friday, December 19, 2008 at the Municipal Cultural Center was presented the posthumous volume Joseph Galantino - Pino Photos - made by the Editor and Lorenzo Piras Franco Di Mauro with the collaboration of Tertium Millennium directed by Domenico Mollica . It was introduced and moderated the discussion, the journalist Vincent Califano , while it fell to the prof. Ugo Vuoso , anthropologist and professor of the Institute for Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, trace the profile of the author and the meaning of his photography in the enhancement of the history and traditions also in terms of socio-cultural promotion of the coast. The Mayor of Piano di Sorrento John Ruggiero announced the willingness of City to acquire the assets of Joseph Galantino photographic production. The presentations were attended by children of the author, Angelo and Rosaria .
"There are thousands of photos Galantino Joseph has made during his long career - Ugo Vuoso explains in the preface to the volume - The majority of these images are scattered among the families of Piano di Sorrento and where the portraits, photos of weddings, baptisms and first communions are going to be those archives of memories and evocations which draw families to draw their genealogy and family stories. In this way of being a writer for images of the social history of Piano Sorrento Perhaps neha Pino had not perceived or otherwise subject to that function must have the role of photographer without adjectives, operator of the machine to be operated according to the traditional recovery of an art learned from a young field, doing the training and had to overcome their teacher at the organizational level and technical-operational business ...". The post
faction Lorenzo Piras reads: "When I met him, Joseph Galantino had a shop-on laboratory course in Piano di Sorrento, Italy. It was the photographer on his Guzzino around all of the Sorrento Peninsula, a capoall'altro. Unique for his bald head and the camera always over your shoulder. Way back in 1964, Pino parked the car in that short stretch where he was made Via delle Rose, had entered the Tipografia "La Moderna" just opened, we met them for a job in town. Since then the sympathy was mutual esteem and cemented our friendship. Often went to Naples together to work problems. The steps required for him were: Pizzofalcone where there was the coach of the cameras (he was always available, ready to solve the problems of its customers when their machines were the tantrums), Piazza Garibaldi which is supplied in two stores of trust; sometimes we went too near the Town Hall, in Via Imbriani, a side street leading to St. James Palace Via Roma, we sometimes lengthened by another supplier to the area of \u200b\u200bSt. John. When he began the era of color where it had climbed to the Vomero, the company that developed the pictures with the new technique ... "
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