Tony Vaccaro - Frank Lloyd Wright and the tower

Tony Vaccaro
Frank Lloyd Wright and the tower
Taliesin 1957

Signed vintage print from the exhibition shown in Germany, Austria and Italy
In 1957, Tony Vaccaro photographed Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the founders of Modern Architecture, for Look Magazine. Vaccaro spent 15 days with the great architect in Taliesin, Wisconsin, where Wright lived and taught his students his own principles and techniques.
Wright was 90: Tony 35 and he was already a recognized photographer because of his work for very famous magazines such as Flair, Look, Time, Life and so on. From this meeting was born an inedited and intimate portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright that Vaccaro was able to expose in almost 3.000 photos taken from everyday life of whom was considerate an icon of Architecture. Faces, expressions and Wright’s attitudes were captured from Vaccaro with amazing ability. His shoots describe masterly the charisma that still transmit the “young ninety-year-old boy” together with his spirit and humanity. Wright was dead two years later.
A large selection oft he photos taken was published later in Germany (see cover 2001)

Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright is born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, June 8th, 1867, at the end of the American Civil War and died in Phoenix, Arizona, April 9th, 1959, at the beginning of Space Age. Wright is considered one of the founders of Modern Architecture.
Passionate of nature, Wright had as source of inspiration the growing rules of plants; from root to stalk, from stalk to flower and finally to fruit. This sense of indivisibility and integrity, is named by himself “organic architecture”. It may be appropriated to “time”, to “place” and to “humanity”. Wright develops continuously these three subjects to his projects, and none of them can progress without the other two. Each part is attached to the whole, as the whole is attached to single parts, into an organic entity. These are the interests which carry him on to select the subject of the single family habitation houses (“prairie houses”), which will represent a decisive aspect of his first period of activity.
In 1932, Wright founds the community of Taliesin where students coming from all around the world, still nowadays, can attend school. In his 72 years dedicated to Architecture, Wright has carried out 1141 projects between drawings and designs, out of which 532 have been completed.
Tony Vaccaro, was born Dec 20, 1922 in Greensburg (Pennsylvania), has told with his photography stories since 1943, earning the merit of being considerate one of the masters of Photography. He participates to the Second World War as a war photographer from 1944 to 1945, shooting almost 5.000, pictures as a soldier from Normandy landing to the Elbe River. After his studies ofJournalism and Science at Long Island University. He works for Flair magazine and then LOOK, later also for LIFE in Rome. He photographed famous celebrities from all around the world. In 1963 he receives the New York Art Directors’ Club medal for the best fashion photo. In 1994, he has been decorated by the French President Francois Miterrand, with the Legion d’Honneur and later with the Bundesverdienstkreuz from Germany.
In 1995 he signed up with Galerie Bilderwelt in Berlin and together they created SHOTS OF WAR , ENTERING GERMANY, LA MIA ITALIA; FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and several other travelling exhibitions as well as the TV Documentary “Schnappschüsse vom Krieg” (MDR-ARD). The exhibitions are documented in 15 catalogs and books and have been shown more than 100 times.
Tony Vaccaro dies at the age of 200 in his home in Long Island City,
Here is a selection of Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh70cxiS6vE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgCFdzmGdyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQudMMDc_Yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxScbpoS8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBFh_iWtRY