Featured photo for exhibit La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita

2019-11-01 - 2020-01-19

Tony Vaccaro photographed on the set of “La Dolce Vita”, and nearing age 97, he indeed is living “the good life”. At the age of 21, Tony was drafted into the war, and June of 1944, now a combat infantryman in the 83rd Infantry Division, he was on a boat heading toward Omaha Beach, six days after the first landings at Normandy. Denied access to the Signal Corps, Tony was determined to photograph the war, and had his portable 35mm Argus C-3 with him from the start. For the next 272 days, Tony fought on the front lines of the war.

After the war, Tony remained in Germany to photograph the rebuilding of the country for Stars And Stripes magazine. Returning to the US in 1950, Tony started his career as a commercial photographer, eventually working for virtually every major publication: Look, Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Town and Country, Newsweek, and many more. Tony went on to become one the most sought after photographers of his day, photographing everyone from President John F. Kennedy and Sophia Loren to Pablo Picasso and Georgia O’Keeffe. “La Dolce Vita” is a major new exhibition of more than 40 photographs by Tony Vaccaro that includes several new discoveries from his archive being exhibited for the very first time.

Ali MacGraw, LOOK, NYC 1971<br/>
Kiss of Liberation: Sergeant Gene Costanzo kneels to kiss a little girl during spontaneous celebrations in the main square of the town of St. Briac, France, August 15, 1944<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
White Death, Pvt. Henry Irving Tannebaum Ottre, Belgium 1945<br/>
One of the original prints near the Rhine River<br/>
one step closer to Victory, near Hamm<br/>
Problem near Vise<br/>
Sophia Loren, New York,1959<br/>
Leonard Cohen, Nashville, 1968<br/>
Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy, 1968<br/>
Enzo Ferrari. Modena, Italy 1955<br/>
John F Kennedy, Washington, DC, 1960<br/>
Hitler's Window, Germany, 1945<br/>
De Kooning, East Hampton, 1952<br/>
Jackson Pollock painting at his home, East Hampton, 1953<br/>
Pablo Picasso, Mougins, France, 1966<br/>
Georgia O'Keeffe, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 1960<br/>
Georgia O'Keeffe, Santa Fe, LOOK, 1960<br/>
Georgia O'Keeffe and skull, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1960<br/>
Going for a walk, New York, 1950<br/>
Coney Island, New York,1948<br/>
Pennsylvania Station, New York, 1948<br/>
Water fountain in the piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Italy, 1947<br/>
Givenchy with Audrey Hepburn's Mannequins, Paris 1960<br/>
Givenchy by the Pool, South of Paris, France, 1961<br/>
Eartha Kitt and Givenchy, Paris, France 1961<br/>
After Degas: Woman and Flowers, New York City 1960<br/>
Gwen Verdon, New York City, NY, 1953<br/>
Umbrella LOOK magazine, NYC 1951<br/>
The Veil, for LOOK, New York, 1951<br/>
Dovima, NYC, 1957<br/>
Guggenheim Hat, New York, 1960<br/>
Taking photographs, Heidelberg, Germany, 1948<br/>
Fellini on the set of "La Dolce Vita", Italy 1969<br/>
Waiting For Mom. Two children wait outside a grocery store with the family shopping cart, Hoescht, Germany, 1946. <br/>
Camera Shy, Bonefro, Italy, 1946<br/>
Old Man, Bonefro, Italy, 1946<br/>
Packed Train, Germany, 1948<br/>
The Violinist, Venice, Italy, 1947<br/>
Reconstruction, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948<br/>
Running Soldier, Battle of the Bulge, 1944<br/>
Defeated Soldier, Frankfurt, Germany, 1947<br/>
Firing Line, Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Germany, 1944<br/>