<I>Vittorio Storaro</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2008
name: label: Photograph by
content: John Simmons, American, born 1950
label: Subject of
content: Vittorio Storaro, Italian, born 1940
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph titled “Vittorio Storaro” by John Simmons. The photograph captures Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s artwork “The Cardsharps,” of three men during a card game. The man on the left is expensively dressed and holding cards in his hand, the man on the right is the cardsharp, and the man in the middle is the cardsharp’s helper, peeking and signaling the expensively dressed man’s cards. In the bottom right corner of the photograph is a reflection of Italian cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, who is highly influenced by Caravaggio’s paintings.
label: Description
content: The photographer signed the photograph in the lower right corner in black ink [John Simmons, ASC] and the title, location, and year are written in the lower left corner [Vittorio Storano @ UCLA 2008].
place: label: Place captured
content: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.39.46
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: photographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © John Simmons
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 14 × 8 in. (35.6 × 20.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm)