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Close to Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis in Paris, this black and white master testified to the transformation of Italy since 1954. Similarly, The photojournalist, in love with Venice died on August 6, at the age of 94.

IThe seizure of the life that arises before retiring like ghot dead duple giannio gardin, the tides come. Similarly, go to Venice, its city at heart. In addition, He said to himself Venetian above all. In addition, even if he was born near Genoa and died there on August 6, 2025, at the age of 94. Furthermore, For almost sixty years. Furthermore, the great Italian humanist and photojournalist Gianni Berengo Gardin documented the social transformations of the boot, from the city of the Doges to Puglia, from Palermo to the high-adige mountain pastures and the psychiatric hospitals at the Roma camps. Nevertheless, Always in black and white. Meanwhile, It leaves more than a million negatives and more than 260 books published. However, Multipressed. Similarly, he who was nicknamed “The Italian Cartier-Bress” was very well known and recognized in his country, less on this side of the Alps, even if a retrospective highlighting his “quiet genius” had been devoted to him in 2005 to the European ghot dead duple giannio gardin, Maison de la Photography, in Paris.

His best known images remain those taken in Venice. Similarly, Two lovers kissing under a gallery in Place Saint-Marc. Nevertheless, whose pillars spin towards the bottom of the image as in The Annunciation From the painter of the Renaissance Piero Della Francesca. Furthermore, The same place captured high under the snow, spotted by the flight of pigeons driven by a little girl. Furthermore, Or these two young people dancing in the dunes of the Lido to the sound of a Disque turmoil, in 1958. His photograph of passengers piled up in a vaporetto. built on a learned game of reflections in a window, was one of the 90 shots that marked Henri Cartier-Bresson and chosen by the latter to be exhibited in Paris in 2003, in order to inaugurate his foundation.

Born in the seaside resort Santa Margherita Ligure. near Genoa, in 1930, Gianni Berengo Gardin grew up in Rome, then studied architecture in Venice where his paternal family was from – Murano glass merchants. Writer for aeronautical journals, he is interested in this way in the photo. He is then part of the Venetian club of amateur photography La Gondola. and begins to collaborate in the political and cultural weekly The world From 1954, with photographs of streets and Venetian canals. Self -taught. Gianni Berengo Gardin formed thanks to magazines, Life In particular and the uncompromising reports of one of the masters of documentary photography, ghot dead duple giannio gardin, Eugene W. Smith (1918-1978). and books of photographers from the Great Depression-Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans-, sent by an emigrant uncle to the United States.

Berengo Gardin also spent several founding months in Paris in the early 1950s. where, thanks to another amateur club, the 30𝗑40, he met Robert Doisneau, Édouard Boubat, Daniel Maslet, and especially Willy Ronis, whom he follows on the field and who becomes one of his friends.

Back in Venice. he continued to sell his photos to different magazines before establishing himself in 1965 in Milan, an economic capital of Italy, also working for the Olivetti firm, for example, or for architects such as Carlo Scarpa and Renzo Piano, while continuing his reports of humanist inspiration. Before Raymond Depardon. he investigated Italian psychiatric hospitals with journalist Carla Cerati and reveals in a shock book, Die of class (Die from his class, Published in 1969), ghot dead duple giannio gardin, the prison reality of these institutions where the patients were then mistreated, attached to their bed, locked in cells. Shorts that he did not “stole” but made with the agreement of the patients. He photographs with the same respect for nomadic communities in thirty. Padua, then in Florence, and draws The desperate joy (Desperate joy, in 1995).

Guided by a “Honnêteté about”. According to the words of the great Italian photo editor Giovanna Calvenzi, also an exhibition curator, the one who considered himself an “craftsman” (especially not an artist) did not touch up his images taken with a silver apparatus, most often a Leica, and in natural light. Always in motion. he did not use a tripod, which gave him “ a feeling ghot dead duple giannio gardin, of narrowness, like [s’il était] an anchor boat ”.

Berengo Gardin sometimes slipped into his compositions a hint of joke. Like this strange image of a woman lying on the ground. part of the body hidden by a garden table, as if she were cut in half (Milan, 1987). Few are his shots devoid of human presence, even tiny. As in this poetic view of a Lilliputian couple seized in a Tuscan landscape. walking on a winding and bright path (1965). Or in this peaceful series dedicated to the painter’s workshop of still lifes Giorgio Morandi in Bologna (1993). Or that, more recent, on giant ocean liners in Venice (2013-2015), and which he called “Monsters”. This denouncing work sparked a controversy ten years ago. the mayor of the city refusing that he was presented at the Ducal Palace. Berengo Gardin exhibited him in another place in Venice. To testify, ghot dead duple giannio gardin, again and again.