Gianni berengo garden biography of william hill
Hopeless glee
The work was realized in some Roma camps in Florence in The idea was to document their daily life in all its aspects: both negative, such as the difficult environmental and health conditions, and positive, such as the traditions, the celebrations, the family occasions, the moments of leisure.
Italian mental hospitals
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La condizione manicomiale fotografata da Carla Cerati e Gianni Berengo Gardin", edited by Franca Ongaro Basaglia and Franco Basaglia, Einaudi , was among the first to denounce the inhuman conditions in which inmates in Italian asylums were held. Made with great difficulty, this work contributed to the debate that led in to the approval of law , the closure of asylums and the restoration of personal dignity to psychiatric patients.
Large cruise ships in Venice
Originating from the disconcert in front of the "visual pollution" produced by the disproportion between the dimensions of the city and those of these mastodons of the sea, the work focuses on the damage caused by unregulated mass tourism to the environment and to the identity of Venice, touching the uncovered nerve of the dichotomy between economic exploitation and the fragile state of the city.
The controversy triggered by the censorship by the mayor Luigi Brugnaro has given a wide international resonance to the images.
He was born at Santa Margherita Ligure in and started to take photographs in After living in Rome, Venice, Lugano and Paris, in he settled in Milan, where he embarked on his professional career, devoting himself to reportage, social inquiry, the documentation of architecture and description of the environment.
He has contributed to the principal illustrated periodicals in Italy and abroad, but has devoted himself primarily to the production of books, publishing over volumes of photographs.
His first photos were published in in II Mondo, edited by Mario Pannunzio, to which he continued to contribute until , publishing hundreds of photographs. From to he worked with the Touring Club Italiano, producing a long series of volumes on Italy and the countries of Europe, as well as with the Istituto Geografico De Agostini of Novara.
He has worked regularly with industry (Olivetti, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, IBM, Italsider, etc.), producing features and books on companies. In he began to collaborate with Renzo Piano, documenting the stages in the realization of his architectural projects.
He has held around solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, he has also shown at Photokina in Cologne, the Montreal Expo in and Milan in , and the Venice Biennale; he took part in the exhibition The Italian Metamorphosis, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in
His pictures can be found in the collections of many museums and cultural foundations, including the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Bibliotheque Nationale and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Musée de l‘Elysée in Lausanne and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
In the magazine Modern Photography included him in its list of 32 of the ”World‘s Top Photographers.“ In Cecil Beaton mentioned him in his book The Magic Image.
The Genius of Photography from to the Present Day.
In Bill Brandt selected him for the exhibition “Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs” at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was the only photographer cited by E.H. Gombrich in his book The Image and the Eye (Oxford ). In Storia della Fotografia Italiana (Rome-Bari ), Italo Zannier described him as ”the most eminent photographer of the postwar period.“ He was one of the 80 photographers chosen by Cartier-Bresson in for the exhibition ”Les choix d‘Henri Cartier-Bresson”.
In he appeared in Hans-Michael Koetzle’s volume “Eyes Wide Open! Years of Leica Photography”.
Milan, Italy