Gianni Berengo Gardin

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Gianni Berengo Gardin (10 October 1930 – 6 August 2025) was an Italian photographer who concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer encompassed book illustration and advertising. "Undoubtedly the most important photographer in Italy in the latter part of the 20th century", "[f]or more than fifty years Gianni Berengo Gardin has been taking photographs with the humility and passion of a great craftsman."

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Life and career Born in Santa Margherita Ligure on 10 October 1930, Berengo Gardin lived in Switzerland, Rome, Paris, and Venice before starting as an amateur photographer in 1954. As a photographer, he was self-taught, learning photography from the two years he spent in Paris working with other photographers. In Berengo Gardin's first year as a photographer, 1954, his first photographs were published in Il Mondo. This magazine, edited by Mario Pannunzio, was one to which both amateurs and professionals liked to submit their work, although until 1959 the photographs were not attributed to particular photographers. It "pursued a photographic aesthetic that privileged street scenes and odd, ironic or bizarre encounters in both town and country", and "more than a third of the photographs published in Il Mondo were by [Berengo Gardin]." His "rare capacity for capturing simultaneous actions and objects within the same frame positioned him as an excellent candidate for that street life Pannunzio was after." Berengo Gardin would later have photo essays published in Domus, Epoca, l'Espresso, Stern, Time, Vogue Italia; Réalités; Le Figaro; and La Repubblica. He turned professional in 1962 and two years later moved to Milan, where he lived from 1975 onwards. From 1966…Citește mai mult

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Vaporetto, Venice, 1960 Berengo Gardin's "most renowned image of Venice", often referred to as Vaporetto, Venice, 1960: was taken in 1960, on a vaporetto with mirrored doors so that the passengers are trapped in a mosaic of reflections. Simultaneously mundane – the travellers are ordinary commuters – and exotic, it captures the paradox of a city trapped in an excess of representation. Berengo Gardin described how it came about: I was 30, living on the Lido in Venice, and every morning I took the vaporetto, or water bus, across to where I worked in San Marco. [...] It was a matter of pure luck, really. I was doing a lot of architectural photography, and this was a spontaneous shot: I only took one picture. In the centre there is a reflection in the glass door of the vaporetto, behind which stands a man all dressed in black. If he'd been wearing white, the shot wouldn't have worked. The photograph was included in Berengo Gardin's book Venise des saisons (1965). It was warmly received; Henri Cartier-Bresson: ranked [this photograph] among the 80 most important photographs ever taken. The co-presence of gazes and of frames within a frame makes it an exceptional…Citește mai mult

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Books Berengo Gardin was the sole contributor or a major contributor to a large number of photobooks: the exact number up to any time depends on various definitions – what a separate book is (as opposed to a mere new edition), what a "major" contribution is, and more – but one estimate in 2014 put the number at 250 (and added that "only 10 are in colour"). Morire di classe (1969) is probably the most celebrated among Berengo Gardin's books. Other award-winning books (see "Awards") include India dei villaggi (1981, about the villages of India) and La disperata allegria and Zingari a Palermo (1994 and 1997, about the Romani people of Florence and Palermo respectively). "Books such as Dentro le case and Dentro il lavoro are some of the best journalistic records of how people worked and lived in post-WWII Italy."

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Exhibitions Berengo Gardin had many exhibitions: the number was described in 2008 as "around 200". A small sample is listed below.

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Le Guilde du Livre, Lausanne, 1965 Il nuovo impegno. Il Diaframma, Milan, November 1968. Exhibition by Berengo Gardin, Cesare Colombo and Toni Nicolini. Napoli '81. Sette fotografi per una nuova immagine. Naples, December 1981 – January 1982. Photographs of Naples by Berengo Gardin, Mario Cresci, Roberto Salbitani, Franco Fontana, Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice, and Antonia Mulas. Fotografie di Gianni Berengo Gardin per Il Mondo dal 1954 al 1965. Palazzo Dugani, Milan, January–February 1985. Trouver Trieste. Eiffel Tower, November 1985 – June 1986. Photographs of Trieste by various photographers.

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Bologna Museum of Modern Art, 1987 Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles, July–August 1987.

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Refettorio delle Stelline, Milan, 1988 Photographs of women. Rome, 1989. Milan, 1990.

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Fotografi italiani, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, 1993 Gianni Berengo Gardin, un nomade fotografo. Giardino delle Oblate, Florence, October 1994. About Romani people in Florence. Ring. Galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna, 1994. Photographs by Berengo Gardin and Gabriele Basilico. Artelaguna '95: opere d'arte per la laguna di Venezia. June–July 1995. The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943–1968 (group exhibition). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 1994 – January 1995. Leica Gallery, New York, 1999. Gianni Berengo Gardin, Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau, Paris, 1997; Museo civico del Santo, Padua, 2001; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2001; Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, 2002; Auditorium, Rome, 2004; La Triennale di Milano, 2004 Pagine di fotografia italiana 1900–1998, Fondazione Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, 1998 Memorie di un dilettante: Vintage prints 1952–1960. Galleria Minima Peliti Associati, June–July 1998. Exhibition related to Giò Pomodoro. International Cairo Biennale, in Cairo, December 1998 – February 1999.

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Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2001 Retrospective. Museo Civico di Padova, Padua, June–October 2001. Les Choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson (group exhibition). Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, 2003. Toscana, gente e territorio. About the people and land of Tuscany. Fondazione Ragghianti (Lucca), July–October 2004. Miracolo a Pisogne. Pisogne, 2004. About the sculptor Adolf Vallazza and the painter Girolamo Romanino. Piazza Lucretius, 2005. Cesare Zavattini. Tra letteratura, cinema, pittura. Pinacoteca Civica di Latina, October–December 2005. About Cesare Zavattini. Gianni Berengo Gardin. Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, February–May 2005. L'altro sguardo = Mit anderen Augen = A distinct regard. Bolzano, July–October 2005. About Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and European Union Youth Orchestra. Travelling exhibition about the Hera Group. Andrea Martinelli: il volto e l'ombra. Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente, Milan, November–December 2005; Rustin Foundation, Antwerp, March–June 2006; Frisia Museum, Spanbroek-Amsterdam, July–October 2006. About the works of the painter Andrea Martinelli. Leopardi: la biblioteca, la casa, l'infinito. Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, September–October 2006. On the house and library of Giacomo Leopardi. Exhibition about Carlo Scarpa. Museo Palladio, Vicenza, June–July 2006. Un paesaggio italiano. Travelling exhibition about Giovo. Exhibition of photographs of the studio of Andrea Martinelli. Casa Cavalier Pellanda, Biasca, December 2007 – February 2008.…Citește mai mult

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World Press Photo award (1963) Scanno prize (1981) for the book India dei villaggi (about the villages of India) Brassaï prize at the Mois de la Photo in Paris (1990) Leica Oskar Barnack Award (1995) at Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles for the book La disperata allegria: vivere da zingari a Firenze (about the Romani people of Florence) Oscar Goldoni prize (1998) for the book Zingari a Palermo (about the Romani people of Palermo)

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Lucie Awards Lifetime Achievement (2008) Honorary degree, University of Milan (2009).

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Collections Calcografia Nazionale, Rome; since 1975 Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica Archive of the photography group La Gondola, Venice

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CSAC, University of Parma Centro per la Fotografia San Marino Immagine, San Marino

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Galleria Civica di Modena Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, University of Pisa

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Museo di fotografia Ken Damy, Brescia Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. 76 photographs.