Alessandro Bertolotti

He has worked as a director of variety shows for the Italian television channel RAI for twenty-five years. He is also a photographer of female nudes and author of two works on Capri. His photographs are included in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. He is one of the largest collectors of erotic books and nude photographs in Europe.{{Cite web | title = Il diavolo in biblioteca | trans-title = The devil in the library | last = Baudino | first = Mario | work = LaStampa.it | date = 21 August 2016 | accessdate = 2018-05-20 | url = https://www.lastampa.it/2016/08/21/cultura/il-diavolo-in-biblioteca-YB717uEBHJ21LHfCO09RVL/pagina.html | language = it }} A portion of his book collection has been exhibited in the fall of 2007 at the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris.{{cite web |url=https://www.mep-fr.org/event/livres-de-nus-une-anthologie/ |title=Livres de nus, une anthologie la collection d'Alessandro Bertolotti |website=Maison européenne de la photographie |date=10 October 2007 |language=fr}} His Books of Nudes (2007), according to ARTnews, "features published studies by photographers, both famous and forgotten, who have taken the naked body as their subject".{{cite magazine |last=Landi |first=Ann |date=July 2008 |title=May contain nudity |magazine=ARTnews |volume=107 |issue=7 |page=46 |issn=0004-3273}}

• {{cite book |language=it|last=Bertolotti |first=Romana De Angelis |display-authors=0 |year=1990 |title=Capri, la natura e la storia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZuGAAAACAAJ |publisher=Fratelli Palombi |isbn=978-88-7621-351-9}}
• {{cite book |language=it|last=Bertolotti |first=Alessandro |display-authors=0 |year=2007 |title=Nudo. I libri fotografici dal 1895 a oggi |publisher=Contrasto |isbn=978-88-6965-087-1}}
• {{cite book |last=Bertolotti |first=Alessandro |display-authors=0 |year=2007 |title=Books of nudes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSLrAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Abrams Books |isbn=978-0-8109-9444-7}}
• {{cite book |language=fr|last=Bertolotti |first=Alessandro |display-authors=0 |year=2012 |title=Curiosa; la bibliothèque érotique |publisher=Editions de la Martinière |isbn=978-2-7324-5274-6}}
• {{cite book |language=it|last=Bertolotti |first=Alessandro |display-authors=0 |year=2015 |title=Guida alla letteratura erotica: dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri |trans-title=Guide to Erotic Literature: from the medieval to our times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkU9rgEACAAJ |publisher=Odoya |isbn=978-88-6288-284-2}}
• {{cite book |language=it|last=Bertolotti |first=Alessandro |display-authors=0 |year=2017 |title=Guida al cinema erotico & porno. Dal cinema muto a oggi |trans-title=Guide to erotic & porn cinema. From silent cinema to today

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtyjDAEACAAJ |publisher=Odoya |isbn=978-88-6288-333-7}}

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• {{cite web|first=Patrick|last= Remy|title=Le collectionneur mis à nu|work=Numero|date= October 2007|language=fr|url=http://www.patrickremy.com/coll.html|trans-title=The collector laid bare}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Russ |first=Ronald S. |date=15 February 2008 |title=Bertolotti, Alessandro. Books of Nudes |magazine=Library Journal |type=Review |page=100}}
• Anne Sauvagnargues, [http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2007/11/08/parures-de-nus_105711 Parures de nus], Liberation, 8 novembre 2007
• Silvana Turzio, Effetti concettuali del nudo in pagina, Alias Manifesto, 24 nov. 2007.
• Nude Visions. 150 years of nude photographers, Keherer Verlag, 2009, {{ISBN|9783868280609}}
• Hans-Michael Koetze, Photographers A-Z, Taschen, 2011.

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• (fr) [http://salon-litteraire.com/fr/la-martiniere/review/1806463-bertolotti-et-sa-bibliotheque-rose-d-enfer Bertolotti et sa bibliothèque rose d’enfer]

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Category:1960 births

Category:Italian photographers

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