“….what you see is colourful and has to be reinvented [by the photographer] because the colour itself must turn an object into a subject. If it remains merely an object, then I think the film, and not the photographer, is managing the colour.”
Born in 1933 in Modena, Italy, Franco Fontana started taking photographs in 1961. In 1968, Fontana had his first solo exhibition at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena. He first exhibited work internationally in 1972 in Vienna, then traveled to the United States in 1979.
Fontana still lives and works in Modena, Italy.
Selected Collections:
International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma
National Gallery, Beijing
The Australian National Gallery, Melbourne
University of Texas, Austin
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Muséed'ArtModerne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Museo de Arte de São Paolo, Sao Paolo
Schweizerische Stiftung für die Fotografie, Winterthur
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Victoria & Albert Museum, London