Augusto De Luca, Italian photographer.
Graduated in law, then became a professional photographer in the mid-1970s, working along the boundary line between traditional and experimental photography.
Background
With his style, he has been going through multiple photography genres, making use of many materials, always trying with his snapshots to enhance primary elements, minimal expression units that make up images in which shapes and signs combine in a way that is reminiscent of metaphysical atmospheres. His photographs have been exhibited by many galleries.
De Luca is the author of record covers, advertising campaign pictures and photography books. He taught photography at the “Montecitorio Club” of the Italian Parliament.
In 1996 De Luca was awarded the “Città di Roma” Prize together with Ennio Morricone for the book Roma Nostra.
Telecom Italia recruited him for designing a special edition telephone card featuring Naples, with a circulation of 7 million copies and four telephone cards featuring Paris, Dublin, Berlin and Bruxelles, with a circulation of 12 million copies.
His photographs are kept in public and private collections such as the International Polaroid Collection (USA), the Paris National Library, the Rome Municipal Photographic Archive, the China National Aesthetic Arts Gallery (Beijing), the Charleroi Photography Museum (Belgium).
Career
BOOKS:
* ''Napoli Mia''. (Centro Il Diaframma / Canon Edizioni Editphoto Srl - 1986)
* ''Napoli Donna''. (Centro Il Diaframma / Canon Edizioni Editphoto Srl - 1987)
* ''Trentuno napoletani di fine secolo''. Electa, Naples 1995, ISBN 8843552066
* ''Roma Nostra’’. Gangemi Editore, Rome 1996, ISBN 978-88-7448-705-9
* ''Napoli grande signora''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 1997, ISBN 978-88-7448-775-2
* ''Palazzo di Giustizia di Roma''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 1998, ISBN 978-88-492-0231-1
* ''Firenze frammenti d'anima''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 1998, ISBN 978-88-7448-842-1
* ''Bologna in particolare''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 1999, ISBN 978-88-7448-980-0
* ''Milano senza tempo''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 2000, ISBN 978-88-492-0093-5
* ''Torino in controluce''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 2001, ISBN 978-88-492-0211-3
* ''Tra Milano e Bologna appunti di viaggio''. Gangemi Editore, Rome 2002, ISBN 978-88-7448-980-0
* ''Swatch Collectors Book 1''. Editore M. Item - Switzerland 1992, ISBN 88-86079-01-X
* ''Swatch Collectors Book 2''. Editore M. Item - Switzerland 1992, ISBN 88-86079-00-1
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS:
* 1979 : Rassegna della nuova creatività, galleria Lucio Amelio - Naples, Italy.
* 1981 : Italian Culture Institute - New York, USA.
* 1982 : Arteder '82 - Bilbao, Spain.
* 1982 : Museo Italo Americano - San Francisco, USA.
* 1982 : Galleria Fotografia Oltre - Chiasso, Switzerland.
* 1982 : Galleria Civica - Modena, Italy.
* 1983 : Italian Cultural Society - Sacramento, California - USA.
* 1983 : Journées internationales de la photographie - Montpellier, France.
* 1983 : Galeria Diaframma - Milan, Italy.
* 1983 : Galleria Camara Oscura - Logroño, Spain.
* 1983 : Italian - American Museum - San Francisco, California - USA.
* 1984 : Institut italien de la Culture - Lille, France.
* 1984 : Associacion Nacional Fotografos - Barcelona, Spain.
* 1984 : Rencontres d'Arles - Arles, France.
* 1984 : Dept.of art of the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
* 1985 : Ecole des Beaux-Arts - Tourcoing, France.
* 1985 : Galleria Vrais rêves - Lyon, France.
* 1985 : Forum exposition "Un mois pour la photographie" - Centre culturel de Bonlieu, Annecy.
* 1986 : Galleria Hasselblad - Goteborg, Sweden.
* 1986 : Festival d'animation audiovisuelle - Saint-Marcellin (Isère) France.
* 1986 : Musée d'art moderne - Liegi, Belgium.
* 1987 : Museo Principe Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes - Naples, Italy.
* 1988 : Incontri Internazionali d'Arte (Palazzo Taverna) - Rome, Italy.
* 1995 : Museo Ancien - Grignan, France.
* 1996 : Camera dei deputati - Rome.
* 1996 : Museo di Roma (Palazzo Braschi) - Rome.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
* Musee de la photographie - Charleroi, Belgium.
* International Polaroid Collection - Cambridge (Massachusetts), U S A.
* Archivio Fotografico Comunale - Rome, Italy.
* Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
* Galerie nationale des arts esthétiques de la China, Beijing.