Orsi

Carlo Orsi (1941). Italian photographer. Born in Milan, he was already a member of the arty Brera scene at a very young age. His first job was as assistant to Ugo Mulas, from whom he learnt the art of picking out the artistic and cultural season’s new faces. He was discovered by the journalist and writer Domenico Porzio, who got him started on reportages for weekly magazines like Oggi, Panorama, and Il Mondo. It was at this time that he started working in fashion. He was one of the first photographers to picture models and clothes in the street as part of everyday life. His work appeared in Vogue, Linea Italiana, L’Uomo Vogue, Moda, Donna, Amica and Vogue Germany. He has done many advertising campaigns for La Rinascente, La Perla, Borsalino, Trussardi, and Malerba. The writer Dino Buzzati wrote the preface to Milano, Orsi’s photographic book about Milan in the 1960s, just after the opening of its first subway line.
From the 1980s he has worked in advertising and taken portraits of celebrities and famous publishing and cultural personalities. He has published three books, based on the work of the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
In 1997 be founded Città, a prestigious high-brow magazine with essays on and images of Milan.