A life well lived.
As we all should.
Godspeed.
ad
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:58 PM, daniel strebin <posterman...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> The vintage poster and projected-film collecting worlds lost a one-time
> giant of their respective arenas earlier this week with the passing (from
> congestive heart failure) of Robert de Pietro, known to many of us
> old-timers as Bobby d. An avid student and lover of world cinema, he turned
> his masters degree in film studies from NYU into a decades-long series of
> vintage film-related enterprises which included, but were not limited to,
> processing and enlarging independent filmmakers' 8 and 16mm work into 35mm
> projection prints; being one of the first to offer rare international films
> on vhs; being the principal architect of Martin Scorsese's (and others)
> private 16 and 35mm film archives; and one of the true seminal giants of
> vintage film poster connoisseurship. In addition, he was a genuine
> larger-than-life character in every respect of the term, in fact his
> personal philosophy which he generously shared with those of us dinosaurs
> of the collecting worlds was, in his words, "living large, or you just
> ain't living." In spite of the hard times which befell him in recent years,
> I believe he will be tremendously missed by those of us lucky enough to
> have been blessed by his past glory and knowledge and love for the best and
> brightest in film history. From his loving friend, Daniel Strebin/
> posterman dan
>
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