Biography
Historian of Photography, as well as photographer in his own right, collector, publisher and late-night author – under a different name – of plays that have been published abroad but not in Italian, Paolo Morello has studied at the Scuola Normale in Pisa and St John’s College Oxford. He has taught History of Photography at various universities including Palermo, Bologna, Milano Cattolica, Brescia, Verona and Ca’ Foscari in Venice.
From 2001 through 2009 he tought the same subject at the IUAV University in Venice. At the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, he founded and directed the two-year Master’s course in Photography, the first of its kind anywhere in Europe. He is the director of the Istituto Superiore per la Storia della Fotografia. From 2001 through 2010 he was contributing editor of the magazine “History of Photography”. For the last ten years he has worked on the foundation of the museum which is destined to house his collection of masterpieces from Italian twentieth-century photography.
He is currently writing A History of Photography 1839-2000.
He now lives and works abroad. His works are in several private collections.
Bibliography
Enzo Sellerio fotografo. Tre studi siciliani, Leonardo Arte, Milano 1998
Fotografi e fotografie a Palermo nell’Ottocento, Alinari, Firenze 1998
Briganti. Fotografia e malavita nella Sicilia dell’Ottocento, Sellerio editore, Palermo 1999
Il ventre della città, Skira, Milano 2000
Realismi, Electa, Milano 2000
Amen fotografia 1839-2000, Skira, Milano 2000
Gli Incorpora, Alinari, Firenze 2000
Fulvio Roiter, Issf, Palermo 2002 (with Naomi Rosenblum)
Alfredo Camisa. Carteggio 1955-1963, Issf, Palermo 2003
Piergiorgio Branzi, Issf, Palermo 2003 (with Sandra S. Phillips)
Mario De Biasi, Issf, Palermo 2003
Ferruccio Ferroni. Carteggio 1952-1959, Issf, Palermo 2004
Paolo Monti. Scritti scelti, Issf, Palermo 2004 (ed. by Francesca Bertolini)
Mario Lasalandra. Attori, maschere, poeti, fantasmi, Issf, Palermo 2005
Gianni Berengo Gardin. Venezia, Issf, Palermo 2006
Mario De Biasi. Budapest 1956, Issf, Palermo 2006
Carla Cerati. Nudi, Issf, Palermo 2007
Gianni Berengo Gardin. Polesine, Issf, Palermo 2008
Guida pratica al mercato della fotografia, Issf, Palermo 2008
La fotografia in Italia. 1945-1975, 2 voll., Contrasto,
Roma 2010
La fotografia in Italia. 1945-1975. Capolavori dalla collezione Morello, Contrasto, Roma 2010
