Rare Photos of Famous People Vacationing in Venice in the 1950s and 1960s (24 photos) (photo)

Jane Fonda, Sean Connery, Sophia Loren, Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dalí – all featured in street photos from mid-century Venice.

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Alain Delon





Annamaria Benvenuti



Bert Lancaster





Brigitte Bardot



Brigitte Bardot



Jane Fonda



David Niven



Italian comedian Totò (Antonio Vincenzo Stefano) Clemente)



Catherine Deneuve



Kirk Douglas



Claudia Cardinale



Marcello Mastroianni



Mick Jagger



Pablo Picasso



Paul Newman



Paul Newman



Roger Moore



Salvador Dali



Sophia Loren with her sister Maria



Sophia Lauren



Walt Disney



Chet Baker



Sean Connery



Ernest Hemingway



This is just a small selection of frames from the more than 300,000 negatives stored in the archive of the Venice photography studio Cameraphoto. They were accumulated over a period of more than fifty years.

Vittorio Pavan, a former student and now the owner of Cameraphoto, has become the custodian of this extraordinary photo archive. Despite constant and meticulous care to preserve the negatives, they quickly and inevitably deteriorate. To preserve this historical legacy, the archive's owner has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. He plans to raise funds to digitize the original images and subsequently preserve high-resolution copies.