Pietro Pascuttini Biography
Pietro Pascuttini was born in old Milan in 1936 into a noble Friulian family. He lost his father at the age of 13 and entered the Tuminelli College where he attended his studies. At the age of eighteen he alternated school with evening painting courses under the direction of the painter Cecchetti. In the same year he discovered his true passion, photography, portraying solitary pigeons in a foggy dawn in Milan as if to create an impression. He proposed his first experiences to a well-known press agency in Milan, quickly learning new techniques under the direction of the famous photographer Tullio Farabola, owner of the agency of the same name. For 5 years he worked continuously, traveling to various countries for highly topical photographic reportages, earning great admiration from the newspapers. During this period he was responsible for taking photographic profiles of well-known figures in the artistic, cultural and political world. He soon became known for his new portrait technique and for his particular sensitivity in the study of the face in the foreground. In 1962 in Milan at Palazzo Serbelloni he won the National Photojournalist Award for the best print. The jury of the award chaired among others by Aligi Sassu awarded him the prize for the best photography for the images of Silva Koscina, Sofia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti. In 1963 he was received at the age of 27 by the Greek shipowner Onassis for a photo shoot on the Cristina yacht in Montecarlo. He is the first photographer to be received at home by Salvator Dalì for a photo shoot and by Charlie Chaplin who posed for the first time with his entire large family in his residence in Switzerland. In 1977 he was recognized as a Master of Color by the European weekly. From the 70s Pascuttini devoted himself fervently to his activity, collaborating with the Grazia Neri journalistic agency and with Italian and foreign weeklies. In 2004, after 50 years of work, he left his great passion which had become a profession due to a serious illness and dedicated himself to reorganizing his valiant artistic career with the aim of creating photographic events relating to his character friends.
