Vittorio Storaro

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A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph titled “Vittorio Storaro” by John Simmons. The photograph captures Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s artwork “The Cardsharps,” of three men during a card game. The man on the left is expensively dressed and holding cards in his hand, the man on the right is the cardsharp, and the man in the middle is the cardsharp’s helper, peeking and signaling the expensively dressed man’s cards. In the bottom right corner of the photograph is a reflection of Italian cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, who is highly influenced by Caravaggio’s paintings. The photographer signed the photograph in the lower right corner in black ink [John Simmons, ASC] and the title, location, and year are written in the lower left corner [Vittorio Storano @ UCLA 2008].

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