Krieger

Bob Krieger (1936). Italian photographer. Born in Alexandria in Egypt. His mother is of Sicilian origin, his father is Prussian. From a very young age he was fascinated by the world of art, in which he became interested thanks to his great-grandfather, Giuseppe Cammarano, painter of the Neoclassical pictures in the royal palace at Caserta, Italy. Although he started photographing at the age of 11 (he can still remember the first shot he took, a portrait of his mother), it was only in 1962 that he entered a studio as assistant “because I was broke.” After moving to Milan in 1967, where he still lives and works, he started his own business immediately publishing in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and documenting the birth of the Italian prêt-à-porter. From 1970 to 1975 he was art director of Bazaar Italy, then he returned to his camera working for the most famous designers (Krizia, Versace, Valentino, Biki, Romeo Gigli, Bulgari) and publishing in magazines such as N.Y. Times Magazine, Vogue, Esquire, and Harper’s Bazaar, but also making his name in the advertising field and getting three covers for Time, among which, in 1982, the one dedicated to Giorgio Armani. Though linked to fashion, he puts some distance between himself and this sector in his personal artistic research on nudes — he published two very beautiful books, Metamorfosi, in black and white, in 1990, and Anima nuda in color, in 1998 — and on portrait photography. In the last years, La Versiliana in Pietrasanta and Spazio Krizia in Milan have given two exhibitions of his work.
2002. An exhibition of his portraits was organized in non-traditional spaces such as the International Airport of Malpensa.