Tazio Secchiaroli
Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg on Via Veneto, Rome

Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg on Via Veneto, Rome

© Tazio Secchiaroli / David Secchiaroli

Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg on Via Veneto, Rome
Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg on Via Veneto, Rome
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg on Via Veneto, Rome
Date1958
PlaceRome, Italy
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.1 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.1 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Carla and Lorenzo Borlenghi Collection of Italian Photographs, museum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment as a matching gift to donations of Ermy Borlenghi and Gordon Bonfield and Cathy and Giorgio Borlenghi
Object number2000.22.3
Not on view

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Photography
Object Type
DescriptionFederico Fellini, who featured a photographer named Paparazzo in his film La Dolce Vita (1960), explained that the word “paparazzo” suggested “a buzzing insect, hovering, buzzing, stinging.” Since then, the term paparazzo (the singular form for the more commonly used paparazzi) has been used to identify photographers who make their livings following celebrities to capture them unposed and often in unflattering moments. Tazio Secchiaroli was one of the most famous paparazzi of the 1950s, when Rome was the popular destination for the world’s glamorous, famous, and infamous. This photograph is one in a series (2000.22.1-.4) where Secchiaroli snaps as he backs down the sidewalk moving away from a charging and angry Anthony Steel.
ProvenanceGaleria Photology; MFAH
Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph has is stamped, verso, center: "Photo: Tazio Secchiaroli".
Inscribed in black, under this: "properté archi Roma press"
The photograph is signed in black, verso, lower right.

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