{"id":255,"date":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","slug":"gianni-berengo-gardin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/gianni-berengo-gardin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianni Berengo Gardin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text\"> This substantial book offers a retrospective of the work of Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin. Its size is representative of Gardin\u2019s respected position in his native country, where it was first published by his agency Contrasto. It also reflects his prodigious output \u2013 200 books and exhibitions since the 1960s. The book contains two interviews, one general, introducing the work and the photographer, the other on his publications. The majority of the book is given over to his black and white pictures arranged in chapters serving loosely to map out his interests and the essence of his imagery \u2013 Venice (the city where he was brought up), Everyday Work, Women, Paris, Empathy, Landscape with Figures, Provincial Life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"text\">A documentary photographer in the traditional sense, Gardin describes his approach thus: \u201cfor me photography is an account\u201d \u2013 emphasising as much as possible the objective reality of a place. His work is easily situated within modern photographic practice. His education: books by American social documentary photographers, whose work was sent to the young photography enthusiast by an American uncle friendly with Cornell Capa; his other influences \u2013 Willy Ronis, Cartier-Bresson, the Family of Man and <\/span><span class=\"italic\"><span class=\"text\">Life<\/span><\/span><span class=\"text\">. In the introductory interview, the portraits reproduced further serve to indicate Gardin\u2019s position amongst peers \u2013 here he is alongside Bruno Barbey, Elliot Erwitt, Leonard Freed \u2026 there he is again with Roberto Koch and Ferdinando Scianna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"text\">Yet Gardin remains relatively unknown within the UK. Ironically perhaps it is his commercial success that has stopped him from becoming so widely acclaimed. Never having to struggle to establish his chosen career, Gardin published his first book on Venice in 1960 and has never looked back, finding it seems an unending stream of collaborators \u2013 publishers, writers and editors \u2013 to work with. He has worked commercially for Olivetti, Alfa Romeo and Fiat and over a long period with the publisher Touring Club Italiano, producing portraits of destinations in Italy and beyond. Yet he also worked for <\/span><span class=\"italic\"><span class=\"text\">Il Mundo<\/span><\/span><span class=\"text\"> from 1954 to 1965 and his work sits firmly within left-leaning concerned reportage of the real and everyday. Gardin\u2019s aim is to leave a record of his epoch through his images of his native country. This book offers an interesting introduction to his photography \u2013 it won\u2019t make waves but is important in that it forms part of a global dialogue with other documentarists of his generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> Sophie Wright <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=212:gianni-berengo-gardin&amp;catid=19&amp;Itemid=77\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"review_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/reviews\/V4N3\/resources\/berengo.jpg\" alt=\"Gianni Berengo Gardin\" title=\"Gianni Berengo Gardin\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"115\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"115\" \/><\/a> <span class=\"review_author\"> Gianni Berengo Gardin<\/span><br \/> <span class=\"review_additional\">Published by Contrasto<br \/> \u20ac65<br \/> 464pp Hardback<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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