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Alessandra Silvestri-Levy

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Alessandra
Princess of Bismarck
Alessandra in 2017
BornAlessandra Silvestri
(1972-11-01) 1 November 1972 (age 52)
São Paulo, Brazil
Noble familyBismarck (by marriage)
Spouse(s)
Jean Lévy
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(m. 1998⁠–⁠2014)​
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(m. 2016)​
OccupationArt writer and curator

Alessandra, Princess of Bismarck (née Silvestri, later Silvestri-Lévy, born 1 November 1972) is a Brazilian art writer and curator.[1] As the wife of Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, she became the Princess of Bismarck in 2019.

A patron of the arts, she has produced and curated several exhibitions of photography, contemporary art, literature, and film festivals, mainly in Paris, São Paulo, and Havana.[citation needed] She was the International Executive Director for the Brazilian Cinema Foundation (Cinemateca Brasileira).[2]

Biography

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She was married between 1998 and 2014 to French diplomat Jean Levy, with whom she had two children. The godmother to the wedding was Danielle Mitterrand,[3] widow of former French President François Mitterrand, a friend of the couple.[4]

Silvestri-Lévy served as Consulesse General of France in São Paulo between 1998 and 2000. She then served as French ambassador in Havana, Cuba, between 2000 and 2004, where she co-produced the publication of the photographic collection of Alberto Korda, the Cuban photographer known for the Guerrillero Heroico photo. The collection was presented in the work Cuba por Korda, published in 2002, accompanied by texts by Silvestri-Levy and journalist Christophe Lovigny.[5][6] The work was published in Brazil in 2004, being praised for the "well cared for edition" of Silvestri-Levy and Lovigny by the magazine Primeira Leitura, and the "beautiful Brazilian edition" of those authors, demonstrating the close relationship between photography and the Cuban Revolution, by the writer, and professor from Ceará, Edmilson Caminha.[7]

Publications

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  • 2002: Cuba por Korda (with Christophe Lovigny). - Cosac Naify-Brasil, Ocean Press-USA, Calmann-Levy-France (ISBN 2702133339), Kuntersman-Germany, Ediciones Aurelia, Spain.[8][9]
  • 2002: Les Années Révolutionnaires - Éditions de l´Aube France (ISBN 2-87678-816-0).
  • 2007: Cuba Sempre - Caros Amigos.
  • 2007: Che Guevara Combatente e Intelectual - Casa Amarela.

References

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  1. ^ "Comemorando 50°Aniversário do"Che Guevara de Korda"". Kaosenlared (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Seven Stories Press". sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  3. ^ Solnik, Alex (2016-12-05). "Alessandra Silvestri-Levy ao 247: "Fidel não usava celular"". Brasil 247. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  4. ^ Costa, Alfredo Duarte (2017). Encontros que a Memória Guarda. Editorial Caminho. p. 282. ISBN 9789722128520.
  5. ^ "Comemorando 50°Aniversário do"Che Guevara de Korda"". Kaos en la Red. 2010-03-06. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  6. ^ Zappi, Lucrecia (2004-08-01). "Nosso homem em Havana". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  7. ^ Caminha, Edmílson (2006). Brasil e Cuba : modos de ver, maneiras de sentir : uma leitura comparada de obras sobre Cuba, publicadas no Brasil. Brasília, DF, Brasil: Thesaurus Editora. p. 179. OCLC 140003247.
  8. ^ Amazon
  9. ^ "Photography". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-01-09.
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