Life of Alighiero Boetti / Vita di Alighiero Boetti

Giorgio Colombo was born in Milan in 1945 and began photographing in 1959. From 1960 to 1965 he studied painting at the Castello Sforzesco School of Art in Milan. In 1963, he began his work on art documentation for personal and studio use. From 1965 he worked as a graphic designer at several Milanese publishing houses and later became Art Director and photographer for Olivetti. In 1971, he opened his own studio in Milan, today the home of the archive, and began working as a professional photographer. In 1984, he began digitising the photographic archive and all the documents now linked to it. Today this archive, which can be consulted online, is a point of reference and historical memory of the avant-garde movements from the 1960s to the present day, in particular of Arte Povera.

• Preface by Michele Casamonti, Foreword by Agata Boetti, Foreword by Giorgio Colombo, Photos 1966-1993, Titles