From Sophia Loren to Marlene Dietrich: 'Cinema Glances', the exhibition featuring images by photographer Angelo Frontoni displayed at the Nerja Museum

The seventh art is one of the great passions of humankind. Since the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière projected the first films to the public on December 28, 1895, in Paris, it has evolved significantly. Different eras, styles, and notable names have emerged.

The Nerja Museum offers a new temporary exhibition. The exhibit, titled 'Cinematic Gazes,' consists of a total of 80 photographs featuring actors, actresses, and directors captured by the famous Italian photographer Angelo Frontoni.

All works belong to the private collection of Spanish artist Enrique del Pozo. This exhibition in the Ana María Márquez Room of the Nerja museum building can be viewed for free until Sunday, September 14.

Looking at the viewer are celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Marlene Dietrich, Paolo Pasolini, and Ava Gardner

The exhibition, composed of 80 snapshots, brings the gaze of the most famous faces of international cinema from the twentieth century, including actresses, actors, directors... hence its name. Thus, looking at the viewer are celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Marlene Dietrich, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, Luchino Visconti, Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Angelo Fontoni was born in Rome in 1929 and was one of the most famous photographers in the world of cinema for his artistic quality, admired since he immortalized Gina Lollobrigida in 1957. His success began with his skill in achieving visual contrasts with black and white compositions and continued with the use of color thanks to his ability to play with light, as highlighted by Del Pozo.

Career

"He was one of the most sought-after photographers in Hollywood, famous for capturing the beauty of his models but also for conveying their sensuality and character," the artist considers. In his opinion, Fontoni's images "have the gift of bringing an aura of eternity typical of the stars being contemplated. A perpetuity that allows us to admire them now as before, suspended in time, showing the light they continue to transmit today and enabling the viewer to feel again the cinema of Hollywood's golden age," he adds.

This exhibition that arrives at the Nerja Museum is made possible thanks to the actor and singer Enrique del Pozo, who offers his private collection of Angelo Frontoni for this display. Enrique del Pozo lived for several years in Italy, where he met this photographer and formed a great friendship with him, being photographed by him. Del Pozo also worked in the Italian film industry, where he met celebrities such as Federico Fellini, Silvia Mangano, or Terence Stamp, and many of those portrayed by Frontoni, like Ursula Andress.

In this exhibition, he presents to the Nerja Museum these 80 images in which very well-known faces of cinema are contemplated, as mentioned, and in which, moreover, scenes within movie shootings and other images like the photographer's portraits published in magazines like the legendary 'Playboy' are shown.