Mastroianni and paparazzo on show

Friday, 07 July 2006

Dolce Vita icon in 80 unseen pictures.

Marcello Mastroianni and the paparazzo king who together lit up Rome's Dolce Vita are teaming up again in a new show in the Italian capital .

Screen icon Mastroianni is the focus of some 100 snaps - 80 seen for the first time - by photographer Tazio Secchiaroli, the pioneering snapper who became the fictional 'Paparazzo' played by Enzo Cerusico, in Federico Fellini's 1960s masterpiece.

Mastroianni, who died two years before Secchiaroli in 1996, is seen in onstage/offstage shots at a slew of immortal shoots including Fellini's Eight and a Half and The City of Women and Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style with Sophia Loren.

Secchiaroli was a close friend of both Mastroianni and Loren and was given unimpeded access to their trailers and dressing rooms, capturing them in a stream of fascinating moments of clowning, smooching and musing .

The show, which opens Friday, is at a fitting venue for the first great celebrity hunter: Rome's Termini Station .

As well as being the backdrop for countless films, the station was where Secchiaroli earned his first lire as a dawn-patrol cub photoreporter taking pictures of alighting passengers for Rome dailies .

Web Resources: Tazio Secchiaroli Archive

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