Brooklynites In Rome : Famed Italian photographer Claudio Corrivetti recalls working with renowned Brooklyn photographer Leonard Freed
While conducting research in April for an about renowned Brooklyn photographer Leonard Freed (published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle last week), I came across an entry on a website published by the Magnum Photographic Agency that served as a tribute to Freed after he passed away.
The contemporary Italian photographer and book publisher Claudio Corrivetti, who lives in Rome, had written a tribute wherein he mentioned how he first met Freed at a gallery in Rome that was exhibiting some of Freed’s photos. He also mentioned a photography book involving photographs of Venice that he and Freed collaborated on in 2004, just two years before Freed passed away.
As mentioned in the article about Leonard Freed, in April, I was invited to spend three weeks in Rome. I decided that while I was there, I would try to contact Corrivetti and learn more about what the Roman photographer thought of Freed’s work, and ask him about the Venice photography book project, another fascinating connection the Brooklyn native had to the eternal city.
When I reached him on the phone, Corrivetti invited me to the office of his book publishing company, Postcart Edizioni, which was only a 10-euro taxi ride from the hotel where I was staying on via Veneto.
Claudio Corrivetti founded Postcart Edizioni in 1994. More than 10 of Postcart’s approximately 100 published photo books have won national and international book awards.
The book Corrivetti and Freed produced is titled “Venice/Venezia.” It’s a beautiful 272-page hardcover book with color photographs by Corrivetti juxtaposed with Leonard Freed’s classic black-and-white photos of Venice. The printing is excellent.