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Olivo Barbieri
Italian artist and photographer
Olivo Barbieri (born 1954, in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments.
He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography[1] from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography.
Barbieri's technique simulates the shallow depth of field effect of macro photography by tilting the lens's angle to the back plane of the camera, which creates a gradual blurring at the top and bottom edges, or left and right edges of the filmed image.
The technique is called selected focus and the effect is that a picture of an actual city looks like the picture of a model.[2][3]
Career
Barbieri began his career in photography studying at DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Bologna.[4] After 1971, his interest in photography