ORNELLA VANONI

All the images for the album "Una Bellissima Ragazza" (2007)

"A Day With Ornella", lifestyle photoshoot
Recording session with Mario Biondi
Live Concert

An article form White Sposa magazine, Italy, showing the images taken to Ornella Vanoni

INTERVIEW FROM WHITE SPOSA - ITALIAN MAGAZINE (2007).

› Ornella Vanoni, how did you meet Luca Rajna?

  • I was introduced to him by a friend of mine, a great graphic artist, Sergio Mascheroni.
    I was struck by the spontaneity of his photos.
    With me he used only natural light: it is difficult to use this style because you have to know how to manage shadows very well, and that problem is usually solved with additional artificial lights.
    Instead they managed to photograph me without artifice, making the shots full of life, beautiful.

› How did you feel on the set?

  • Fine. I am myself, no acting, I really followed my instinct.
    If the photographer is able to establish a good relationship with me I’m calm, I don’t get bored, I hardly notice his presence, the camera doesn’t create embarrassment or shame.
    I think this is then reflected in the photos, which show my true soul.

› Is it like that for your new album ’A beautiful girl’ that you are bringing in concert to Italy and Spain?

  • Yes, there is a lot of me in this album, so much so that I’m also shown in photos of when I was much younger, when I was a girl.
    Even now, however, I feel full of life and strength, my niece ironically calls this ability of mine ‘sprightliness’!

› And in concert, when on stage, how do you feel?

  • There it’s different, there is an emotion and a relationship with the audience that is very strong.
    I can be myself on the stage, where, however, there is also a bit of acting, things often get confused and it is a fine line that distinguishes the false from the spontaneous, the use of the voice, the play of times and pauses, the real or scenic unforeseen event.
    I now have much less fear of judgment on the part of the public than before and therefore I am much more myself.

› Do you think that the same emotion can be there in a day as important as that of marriage?

  • No, the judgment should not be there.
    Marriage is a major life change, to be lived with an emotion that binds us to the people we love, relatives and friends.
    Although now, if I were to do it, I would do it in secret, in the sense that it’s something intimate, private.

day one

A Day with Ornella

Milan, lifestyle photoshoot

Beginning of the lifestyle sequence of images about Ornella Vanoni. A cat pointed on a stone.
Ornella Vanoni at home having breakfast.
Details of a vignette with Ornella Vanoni in the background.
A candid portrait of Ornella Vanoni.
"Amicizia con Dio" a book. "Friendship with God".
Ornella Vanoni smiles and show us a print with her on the beach (black and white).
"Rome, 4th march 1961" says the back of a print.

DAY TWO

Recording session | Bologna, Fonoprint studio.

"Cosa M'Importa", duet with Mario Biondi

Fonoprint Bologna: details of a mixer. Bokeh effect.
Unconventional portrait of Ornella Vanoni.
Candid portrait of Mario Biondi singing in the recording studio.
Ornella Vanoni singing "cosa m'importa".

DAY THREE

Milan, concert

Backstage and on stage photoshoot

Ornella Vanoni represented as a queen.
Ornella Vanoni on stage!

Concept: Luca Rajna, Sergio Mascheroni | Editing, post production: Luca Rajna

Photo: Luca Rajna, Corrado Cascone | Title page photo: Corrado Cascone | © Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Italy) S.p.A. | This post-production: © Luca Rajna  

Concept: Luca Rajna, Sergio Mascheroni | Editing, post production: Luca Rajna

Photo: Luca Rajna, Corrado Cascone | Title page photo: Corrado Cascone | © Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Italy) S.p.A. | This post-production: © Luca Rajna  

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