Fotografen - Einzelansicht

"Born in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, in 1930, since 1954 Gianni Berengo Gardin was involved in photography. His favorite fields are social issues, architectural and urban reports, landscapes and people.
From 1954 to 1965, works for Il Mondo, a famous weekly magazine directed by Mario Pannunzio.
All along the years, he works with the major magazines and newspapers in Italy and abroad (i.e., Domus, Epoca, L'Espresso, Time, Stern, Harper's, Réalités, Vogue, le Figaro, etc.).
His peculiar photographic view has always been very welcomed also in advertising and corporate. Several of the most impressive pictures used in the adv. campaigns and corporate communications came from his archive: the Olivetti and the Italian branch of Procter and Gamble reportages, among others.
More than 50 different exhibitions, all over the world, have celebrated his work and his creativity: the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Rochester Eastman House, and the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris....
In 1990, Gianni Berengo Gardin has also been special guest to the Mois de la Photo of Paris and a special exhibition has been held in FNAC galleries. His big Retrospective was hosted in the Lausanne Musée de l'Elysée in 1991 and his pictures were included in the big exhibition dedicated to Italian Art in 1994 (New York Guggenheim Museum).
In Arles, during the 1995 Rencontres Internationales De la Photographie the Oskar Barnack - Camara Group award, awarded him.
Gianni Berengo Gardin has published around 150 photographic books. Among others, Venise des Saisons, Viaggio in Toscana, L'occhio come mestiere, Toscana, Sardegna, Grecia, Francia, Immagine di Venezia, Dentro le Case, Donne, Gran Bretagna, Il Mondo di Pannunzio, his big Retrospective book, In treno attraverso l'Italia (with Ferdinando Scianna and Roberto Koch), Storyboard - reportage dedicated to the Italian branch of Procter and Gamble. His last works were dedicated to Gypsies communities in Italy (the book Disperata Allegria. Vivere da Zingari a Firenze won the Barnack award in 1994) and to the Italians (see the book Italiani, Fedrico Motta Editore, 1999).

Gianni Berengo Gardin used to live in Paris, Switzerland, Rome and Venice and then he set up in Milan. Contrasto represents his work worldwide."

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"Contrasto is a unique enterprise in the field of photography. Contrasto was born in the 80's to be a point of reference for quality photojournalism.

The agency's photographers, in addition to its close contact with the information and culture worlds, allows Contrasto to be a leader in the field of author photography.

Its vast range of activities (production and distribution of images for journalism, advertising and image consulting, fashion and publishing, archives available online) is guaranteed by the various resources it draws from; Most notably Magnum, the prestigious agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Contrasto is publishing house as well, working to realize photographic books, and exhibits in cooperation with Italy's public and private institutions.

The high level of Contrasto photographers' amounts to a gallery of unique images suitable for collecting purposes as well."