Photographer Umberto Pizzi has died: he told 60 years of Italian history

Umberto Pizzi, the photographer who chronicled 60 years of Italian history, has died at the age of 89. This was announced on the Fatto Quotidiano website, with which he had collaborated for over ten years.

Born in Zagarolo in 1937, Pizzi began taking photographs in 1968. Since then he had never stopped, riding his scooter every day, camera around his neck, to chase and capture moments and become a witness to the collective imagination.

From the Dolce Vita to the wars in Iran, Iraq, Türkiye, Syria and Jordan

He immortalized the years of the Dolce Vita, the great love stories such as the one between Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, but also the power, Berlusconi's entry into the field, the vices and customs of Italian society and in particular of the Roman aristocracy.

He was also a war photojournalist for FAO in Iran, Iraq, Türkiye, Syria and Jordan. In the 2000s he collaborated with the Dagospia website, publishing the books Cafonal and Ultracafonal.