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‘Ripley’ Production Designer on Crafting a Murderous Black-and-White World
‘Ripley’ production designer David Gropman turns back time to recreate 1960s Italy in black and white.
In building the world of Netflix’s “ Ripley,” production designer David Gropman needed to incorporate grand Italian train stations and works of art from the early 1960s. He further utilized work by legendary photographers Pietro Donzelli, Bert Hardy, David Seymour, Herbert List and Mario Cattaneo to help visualize what this 1960s world would look like. Art also features prominently in the series, with Ripley falling in love with Caravaggio’s paintings after Dickie takes him to the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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