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Tarot Settanni      1995 Pino Settanni      Switzerland                                                   Art Medium: Posed photographs modified and collaged with acrylic painting. Description: Pino Settani is a well known photographer. It has been said of him that he is a painter with the camera. He holds workshops on photography in Italy and internationally. He initially worked in photojournalism, but from about 1975 he decided to locate himself as an art photographer. ork. Two years later he takes his meeting with Guttuso. A chance encounter with Renato Guttuso, the Sicilian artist (who also produced a set of tarot designs) led to them working on a photo book which was published in 1977. In 1994 he produced a series of photographs inspired by the tarot images which Renato Guttuso had earlier painted. The series comprises 78 sumptuous photographs including 38 with real people (22 Major Arcana and 16 minor arcana have figures) and the 40 minor arcana made with small figured mannequins. His posed photographs exhibit poetic theatricality, and intensely focus on blue, red, green, yellow and purple colours. Also in 1994 he created a series of the zodiac signs which was purchased by the Museum of Photography in Paris.