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"The image is less important than the concept and the feeling it evokes. The main thing is to communicate it, to share it by any means."
Franco Fontana is one of the greatest masters of contemporary art photography in Italy. Fontana's style was formed in the late 1960s under the influence of abstract expressionism and minimalism. His masters were his contemporaries Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ed Reinhardt.

In contrast to the classic black and white art photography that predominated at the time, his work emphasises form and colour through singular geometric compositions and …