Bertolotti, Alessandro
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Alessandro Bertolotti (born in 1960) is an Italian writer and
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Life

He has worked as a director of variety shows for the Italian television channel
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for twenty-five years. He is also a photographer of female nudes and author of two works on
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. His photographs are included in the archives of the
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. He is one of the largest collectors of erotic books and nude photographs in Europe. A portion of his book collection has been exhibited in the fall of 2007 at the
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in
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. His ''Books of Nudes'' (2007), according to ''
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'', "features published studies by photographers, both famous and forgotten, who have taken the naked body as their subject".


Selected works

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References


Further reading

* * * Anne Sauvagnargues,
Parures de nus
', Liberation, 8 novembre 2007 * Silvana Turzio, ''Effetti concettuali del nudo in pagina'', Alias Manifesto, 24 nov. 2007. * ''Nude Visions. 150 years of nude photographers'', Keherer Verlag, 2009, * Hans-Michael Koetze, ''Photographers A-Z'', Taschen, 2011.


External links

* (fr
Bertolotti et sa bibliothèque rose d’enfer
1960 births Italian photographers Living people {{Italy-photographer-stub