First in Italy to hold a chair of "history of photography" he taught at IUAV and at the Faculty of Letters of Ca 'Foscari University also in Venice, he also taught at Dams in Bologna and at the Faculty of Cultural Heritage of Ravenna and at the Catholic University of Milan.
He is a member of the "Sociètè europeènne d'histoire de la photographie".
He had an honorary degree in Conservation of cultural heritage from the University of Udine.
Curator of dozens of exhibitions, including the one on the Mediterranean landscape organized in Seville on the occasion of the Expo 1992 is the photographic section of Italian Metamorphosis, the great exhibition dedicated to Italian art from the Guggenheim in New York in 1994.
Many great contemporary Italian photographers owe his fame as a popularizer [without source].