Roberto Donetta (born June 6, 1865 in Biasca; died September 6, 1932 in Corzoneso) took around five thousand photographs on glass plates of rural life in Alpine Switzerland. They were stored in an attic. And there they lay undiscovered until the 1970s. Penniless and restless in his lifetime – nicknamed ‘Vagabondo’ – Donetta is now celebrated for his stylish, unsentimental, humorous, concise and theatrical work.
