Milton Gendel (bn. 1918...)
Andre Leon Talley & Lord Snowdon in Fendi furs
Ruspoli Palace, 1987
Milton Gendel (born December 16, 1918 in New York) is an American photographer and art critic who worked for most of his career in Italy.
Milton Gendel has lived in Rome since 1949. As a correspondent for ARTnews, he wrote articles about Italian artists such as Alberto Burri and Toti Scialoja. Gendel's photographs capture artists and intellectuals against the background of the transformation of Italy during the postwar economic boom. In 1945-46, while stationed in China with the United States Army, he captured the tumultuous period between the Japanese surrender and the advent of civil war that brought the Communists to power.
Gendel's work was the subject of dual retrospective exhibitions at the Museo Carlo Bilotti and the American Academy in Rome in 2011.
He had his first American exhibition in New York in 2008, at the age of 90 !
