Carlo Bavagnoli, European photojournalist for Life magazine, has died – Corriere.it

The photographer died Carlo Bavagnoli, who was the only non-American on the permanent staff of Life magazine in the 1960s. He was born in Piacenza on May 5, 1932 and came to Milan in the 1950s. Often the Bar Jamaica on Via Brera where he shared the hard life of his friend Luciano Bianciardi with writers, artists and other photographers – including Ugo Mulas, Alfa Castaldi and Mario Dondero. In 1956 he was hired by the magazine Epoca and accepted into the permanent group in 1964 Photography at Life. He moved to New York and was then entrusted with the European headquarters in Paris.

Carlo Bavagnoli was the author of unforgettable photographs, including those for Life on the occasion of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII. and the subsequent election of Pope Paul VI. But also, 1958, reportage on the subject of poverty in Italy entitled L’Africa in casa, created for l’Espresso. In 2016, he signed the cover of La Lettura No. 252, dated September 25: the image of children leaning towards a piece of bread, taken by the photographer in Congo in 1959.