TAZIO SECCHIAROLI (1925-1998)
The spontaneous strip-tease by belly dancer Aich Nan, in Rugantino's Jazz Bar on the night of November 7 1958, was prompted by Anita Ekberg during a somewhat wild, if not to say debauched, twenty-fifth birthday party for the aristocratic Olghina di Robillant. The incident has frequently been cited as a key event in the story of the emergence of the paparazzi and as a defining illustration of the decadent aspects of Roman life immortalised by Federico Fellini in his La Dolce Vita, made the following year. The film also features a strip-tease, likely inspired by the Rugantino's incident that was widely reported and achieved great notoriety through the images captured by Secchiaroli.
TAZIO SECCHIAROLI (1925-1998)

Roma, Lo spogliarello di Aiké Nana al Rugantino (Rome, The stripping of Aiche Nana at Rugantino), 1958

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TAZIO SECCHIAROLI (1925-1998)
Roma, Lo spogliarello di Aiké Nana al Rugantino (Rome, The stripping of Aiche Nana at Rugantino), 1958
gelatin silver print
titled and dated in pencil and photographer's credit stamp (verso)
image 6½ x 9 1/3in. (16.6 x 23.7cm.)
sheet 7 x 9 1/3in. (17.6 x 23.7cm.)
Literature
Paparazzi, Alinari, Firenze, 1988;
Melissa Harris (ed.), Immagini italiane, in 'Aperture', monogr. issue, 132, summer 1993;
Italo Zannier (ed.), Segni di luce, 3 voll., Longo, Ravenna, 1993;
Germano Celant (ed.), The Italian Metamorphosis, cat. of the exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1994;
Gli anni della Dolce Vita, Fiaf, Turin, 2003;
Uliano Lucas (ed.), Storia d'Italia, Annali 20, L'immagine fotografica, Einaudi, Turin, 2004;
Paolo Morello, La fotografia in Italia 1945-1975: Capolavori dalla collezione Morello, Contrasto, Rome, 2010, pl. 184.
Exhibited
Paparazzi, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, 1988;
The Italian Metamorphosis, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1994;
La fotografia in Italia 1945-1975: Capolavori dalla collezione Paolo Morello, Forma, Milan, 2010;
Italian Realism: Masterpieces from the Collection of Paolo Morello, Big Manezh, Moscow, 2011.

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