Aldo Fraccaroli

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Google translation

Goodbye and Good Light "Commander Fraccaroli
In the night between 22 and 23 March 2010, at the age of almost 91 years,
died in his sleep in Lugano - where he lived for some time - the famous
naval photographer, historian and journalist Aldo Fraccaroli.
A name well known to many - since the war to date - have been affected and
are interested in the wide world of photography and journalism naval
industry: fields where it has always worked with great professionalism,
always animated by passion and culture combined with qualities of gentility
, modesty and personal availability.
Son of the famous journalist and playwright Arnold was born in Milan on 17
September 1919, Aldo Fraccaroli - passionate to the sea and "things of the
sea" since very young - began photographing warships in the early thirties.
Naval photographer during the Second World War was often called to active
duty in the fifties and the seventies, and during numerous vessels,
Fraccaroli had the opportunity to not just photographically documenting
tasks, units, and the renewal of the Italian Navy but also the activity of
many ships of other countries.