Joe Oppedisano was born in Gioiosa Ionica RC in 1954, seven years after he moved to New York with h

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Joe Oppedisano was born in Gioiosa Ionica RC in 1954, seven years after he moved to New York with his family. Very young began to devote himself to photography; in 1971 he writes at Queens College in New York and in 1973 he attended a photography course at the same university. In the same year he attended the School ofVisual Arts in New York; simultaneously deepens his professional tesa tape experience working as an assistant to several well-known advertising photographers. tesa tape In 1976 he started his career as a freelance; for Alitalia New York makes a reportage to promote tourism in Tuscany and in the same year, a survey carried out in Friuli, where he made a series of photographs on the earthquake zone and the homeless, work published in the American newspaper Herald Philadelphia.
In 1982 he returned to Italy and settled in Milan: here, in addition to performing cultural reportage for the American magazine "Warning" as an envoy, working with several agencies and publishers -Rizzoli, Mondadori-, creating services for magazines and numerous campaigns tesa tape Advertising: among them for Adidas, Yomo, Pionier, Hitachi, Panasonic, Grundig, Kodak, Apple, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Campari, RAS, American Express.
In parallel to commercial work plays an autonomous and continuous experimentation on the image, which led him to investigate different genres, such as portrait, landscape, nude, and also to deepen technical-instrumental aspects of the photographic medium.
The result is an original language based on an extension of the real-time viewing of the image; a technique obtained by Oppedisano through changes he studied and put in place on his camera - for its unique in the world - able to get a fusion between one frame and another.
His images are stored in various private collections and Institutions: International Polaroid Collection - Cambridge USA Purchase tesa tape Museum of Contemporary Art - Purchase New.York 3M Foundation USA Alinari Museum Florance Italy Modena Italy Art Collection