In the early Sixties, Massimo Vitali started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with magazines and agencies in Italy and Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttman, the founder of the Report agency, who was to be a key influence on Vitali as he became a “Concerned Photographer”.
His series of Italian beach panoramas began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy. He started to observe his fellow countrymen very carefully, depicting a “sanitized, complacent view of Italian normalities” whilst at the same time revealing “the inner conditions and disturbances of normality: its cosmetic fakery, sexual innuendo, commodified leisure, deluded sense of affluence, and rigid conformism”. (October Magazine 2006, no. 117, p. 90, How to Make Analogies in a Digital Age, by Whitney Davis).

6 november – 23 december 2010
Galerie du Jour agnès b.
44 rue Quincampoix, 75001 Paris