MODENA. Carlo Savigni suddenly disappeared during the night. He was 78 years old. a well-known personality in Modena had founded Modena Radio City. With his passion for photography, he even became the official photographer of the beat epic over the years. His most famous images of characters who made history, but also his passion for technology was great and he fell in love with the world of radios, leading him to found the history of Modena Radio City
This is what he told himself on his website carlosavigni.it
“Born on March 5, 1944, the young Carlo Savigni soon dropped out of college to run a record shop, household appliances and photographic goods. There he began to deal with bodies and lenses with an almost genetic implicitness. A Youthful Declaration of Love. , the passion for photography.
Between 1962 and 1963 he crossed his steps as a photographer with two companions who wrote with light: Beppe Zagaglia and Franco Fontana (for all the “masters of the In the period 64/68 he shot almost all the official pictures of the protagonists of the 84 , the nomads , Francesco Guccini.
He meets them in a bar (the Grand’Italia) where they have decided to look beyond the confines of the reassuringly ordinary of musicians, travellers, designers like Bonvi. Innovator, experimenter and insatiable for new horizons, but not very inclined towards record companies, he suddenly gives up his professional activity, he never completely gives up the reflex: he photographs for himself, out of thirst for an aesthetic challenge beyond any logic of the market and he needs to earn, so he wants to trade with his creative freedom).
But Savigni, thanks to his passion for technologies, founded a radio and began the radio epic.