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Franco Fontana, an Italian photographer famous for turning landscapes into

Franco Fontana, an Italian photographer famous for turning landscapes into abstract images, has died at the age of 92. Starting his career in the 1960s, when black and white still dominated fine art photography, Fontana was a pioneer of colour. Some of his best-known pictures — showing southern Italian beaches or countryside in stark, bright colours — evoked the work of abstract painter Mark Rothko. Franco Fontana, an Italian photographer famous for turning landscapes into abstract images through the masterful use of colour, geometry and shadows, has died at the age of 92, Italian media reported on Saturday.

Why it matters. Why it matters: Franco Fontana, an Italian photographer famous for turning landscapes into abstract images, has died at the age of 92.

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