Video: Disappearing Italy in the pictures of the iconic photographer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Gianni Berengo Gardin Is one of the most famous Italian photojournalists. He spent more than half a century with a camera in hand, capturing the fleeting charm of the urban landscapes of Rome and Venice. In his black and white photographs - life itself, changeable and fickle. The photographer longingly recalls the past, nostalgic for the times when his favorite cities were not yet crowded with tourists, and in them one could find quiet places to hide from the hustle and bustle.
To date, Gardin has published over 250 books and is still working. With his camera at the ready, he travels to his favorite places in order to find new subjects for his photo stories. Speaking of modernity, Gardin always emphasizes that now it is difficult to find the romance inherent in the Venetian streets half a century ago. “You will no longer see a girl running across the deserted St. Mark's Square, scaring away pigeons, or a couple kissing at the tall columns all alone. You will never take such pictures again. Venice is completely different from what it was. Now it is full of tourists,”says the 85-year-old artist.
Gardin was born in the city of Genoa in 1930. He moved to Venice after the war, and for a long time photography was only a hobby for him. Once his uncle gave him an illustrated edition of American photographers Walker Evans and Dorothea Lang, and then Gianni realized the unlimited possibilities of the camera.
Curtain is known for his diverse photographs: here he takes pictures of patients in a mental hospital, here in his photograph of young people dancing on the beach to the sound of a gramophone, here are the workers of the Olivetti factory. “People travel all over the world to photograph places like Hawaii. Then they understand how beautiful it is,”says the photographer. This summer, Curtain will present another exhibition entitled 'True Photography'.
Gianni Gardin is against any distortion of the image, he compares photos processed in Photoshop with a special kind of fraud. He calls himself a real photographer and apologist for dying art. In the all-out smartphone age, he remains faithful to the traditional camera and time-honored shooting techniques.
Photographer Charles Traub has his own view of life in Italy. Its colored street retro photos talk about life in this sunny country in the 1980s.
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