Manfredi Bellati Biography
Manfredi Bellati (1937 - ) born in Belluno, grew up and studied in Venice where he practiced painting and sculpture with his uncle and enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture. After a study stay in Leeds, he returned to Italy where he worked as an interior architect, approaching photography to document his work. Passionate about the medium, he collaborates with Domus and Architectural Review, with interior photographs, and Vogue for which he creates portraits of actors, writers and directors. With Roberta di Camerino he approached the world of fashion, living in the Swinging London of the 60s, collaborating on Queen and the English edition of Vogue. He returned to Italy in '72 and published in the most important fashion magazines. He created campaigns for Marelli, Contax, Campari, Coin (with which he won the Clio Award in 1980) and exhibited in numerous personal and collective exhibitions. He also knows how to joke about fashion, as demonstrated by Revivals, the volume-catalogue of the exhibition of the same name in which he poses very young scantily clad models among the symbols of the 50s and 60s: the Vespa, the jukebox, the red Coca machine -Cola, the battery-powered petrol pump, a Beatles record, Nabokov's book coupled with the lollipop and heart-shaped glasses with which the model reinterprets Lolita. Since the 1990s, Bellati's interest has shifted from fashion to other photographic disciplines, but he continues to exhibit his fashion photos and portraits in various galleries in Italy and abroad while taking architectural photos and publishing books with photos of Italian food . He does not abandon his first love and combines his interior design activity with that of a photographer.
