Selling photographs to a "men's only" market and to the kind of men who preferred other men, in 1907, landed Galdi arrested for "insult to the public moral" and "selling excessive audacious photographic studies". He spent time in prison and paid a heavy fine.
There is little information on the life of Vincenzo Galdi. It is known that he was born in Rome in around 1860. Vincenzo became known as an active photographer during 1880 to 1910, while working for Guglielmo Plüschow in Rome.
Galdi, along with William von Glden and Guglielmo Plüschow, produced a large number of erotic photographs, which were popular in Germany, England and North America.
Though Vincenzo did photograph some women, he, primarily, was a photographer of nude boys and men. It is the art of his work and the period of time in which he created these "edgy" images that interests us. The fact is, many of his images were produced into postcards.
In 1890, most photographers were confined to photographing in studios or interiors and very few photographers publicly ventured into the type of photographs, Vincenzo became known for. He also began to photograph "en plein air" or "free light" nudes. This was also an unusual move in 1910.
The Sicilian Vincenzo Galdi was working in imitation of von Glden but revealed a strong tendency to nearly pornographic images. Although a photographer of genuine accomplishment, he was so preoccupied with the size of the male member that the classical setting and pose often became a mere backdrop for the exposition of the model's penis.
Selling photographs to a "men's only" market and to the kind of men who preferred other men, in 1907, landed Galdi arrested for "insult to the public moral" and "selling excessive audacious photographic studies". He spent time in prison and paid a heavy fine.
Vincenzo Galdi is believed to have died in Rome sometime during WWII.
Today, Galdi's photographs and postcard images remain, to a large extent, in the dark, having much of his work destroyed, during World War II and little reliable biographical information is available.
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