Portrait of Pasolini

In the fall of 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini assigned the young photographer Dino Pedriali to document the writing of the novel "Petrolio". Pedriali took more than one hundred black-and-white shots of the intellectual engaged in the making of his most complex and tormented work, an effort that Pasolini would never see through to completion due to his violent death at the Ostia seaplane terminal on Nov. 2, 1975. Pedriali's photographs unknowingly document Pasolini's final days, becoming iconic images and a testament to the intellectual's body. These include the close-up shot of Pasolini's intense face that Eugenio Degani reproduces in his work, superimposing and modifying the photograph through computer art.