Natali, Enrico
American, b. 1933
The Subway photographs were Natali's first major series, and according to the artist, they prompted him to adopt photography as a vocation and to take America, broadly considered, as the central subject of his work. In the following years, Natali lived in different parts of the United States, working either as a freelance or a commercial studio photographer. In 1971, Natali had also started a new series, American Landscapes, supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The following year, he published the book New American People, which collects selections of the photographs he had taken in these various locations. In the mid-1970s, Natali stopped making photographs entirely and in 1980, he purchased land in Los Padres National Forest in California, relocating there with his wife and children. In 1990, he and his wife founded a Zen meditation center. Natali began to take photographs again in 2001, working in color and using a digital camera.