03 Photographs of the Canals of Venice by Gianni Berengo Gardin, with footnotes. #118

Gianni Berengo Gardin

Venice

Vintage gelatin silver print

8 × 12 1/5 in, 20.3 × 31 cm

Private collection

Gianni Berengo Gardin (born 1930) is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising.

"Born in Santa Margherita Ligure, Gardin lived in Switzerland, Rome, Paris and Venice before starting as an amateur photographer in 1954. As a photographer, he was self-taught.

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. 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 has lived since 1975.

Gianni Berengo Gardin

Venice

Vintage gelatin silver print

8 7/10 × 12 1/5 in, 22.2 × 31.1 cm

Private collection

In the early 1990s, Berengo Gardin spent time living among the Romani people of Italy, hoping to show their lives from the inside. This resulted in two highly regarded books, La disperata allegria (Florence) and Zingari a Palermo (1994 and 1997).

Berengo Gardin has named as influences on him the French photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, Édouard Boubat and Robert Doisneau; others have identified the Italian group La Gondola and the American photographer W. Eugene Smith. More on Gianni Berengo Gardin

Gianni Berengo Gardin

VENEZIA, 1955-1960

Vintage gelatin silver print

30,2 x 40 cm

Private collection

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