Elisabetta Catalano (1944 – 4 January 2015)[1] was an Italian fine-art photographer mostly specialized in black and white and color portraiture.

[3] At about the same time, she met many visual artists associtated with the Arte povera movement like Alighiero Boetti, Pino Pascali, Jannis Kounellis, Eliseo Mattiacci and Cesare Tacchi.

Catalano's first solo exhibition, Uomini, was held in 1973 at the Il Cortile Gallery in Rome and at the Galleria Milano in Milan.

The photographs in the show were later purchased by the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris and placed in the institution's permanent collection.

[2][3] Catalano's last exhibition, Le Collezioni, Non basta ricordare ("The Collections, remembering is not enough") was held at the MAXXI Museum in Rome in 2014.