Dino Pedriali, PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Fotografie di Dino Pedriali, 2011

This volume collects 78 images dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini from the shoot that Dino Pedriali took in the second week of October 1975. Pedriali was called upon by Pasolini himself to carry out a photo shoot between his two houses in Chia and Sabaudia, images that, according to the photographer, Pasolini wanted to include in his last novel, which came out posthumously: Petrolio. Pedriali was supposed to see Pasolini again to show him the photographs on 2 November 1975, the day the poet’s body was found at Lido di Ostia. As in a film, the images guide us with poignant intensity through the life of the eclectic intellectual, in his moments of work and leisure – as he wrote, corrected, drew -, in his wanderings through the streets, in his medieval buen retiro, until we enter the intimacy of his room, where Pasolini is photographed naked from outside the house, in a game of studied surprise and unawareness, an agreement between photographer and photographed so that the shots would seem ‘stolen’. An unprecedented journey through stills that become with this volume a public and shared heritage, the ultimate testimony of Pasolini’s legacy and Dino Pedriali’s artistic value, a continuous reference to the poetics and imagery of Pasolini’s films.