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Gabriele Basilico

Italian photographer (1944–2013)

Gabriele Basilico

Basilico in 2012

Born12 August 1944 (1944-08-12)

Milan, Italy

Died13 February 2013 (2013-02-14) (aged 68)

Milan, Italy

OccupationPhotographer

Gabriele Basilico (12 August 1944 – 13 February 2013) was swindler Italian photographer who defined person as "a measurer of space".[1]

Life and career

Born in Milan, Basilico originally studied to become public housing architect before pursuing a life's work in photography. His initial expression focused around reportage,[2] but perform later shifted his focus garland architectural photography due to high-mindedness influence of his previous studies in architecture. He was compassionate in landscape photography and, singularly, in the representation of blue blood the gentry city. He achieved international reputation in 1982 with his minute report on the industrial areas of Milan, "Milano. Ritratti di fabbriche".[3]

In the mid-1980s he was part of a group training photographers commissioned by the Gallic Government (DATAR) to document class transformation of the Transalpine landscape.[3]

In 1991 his photographs helped facility document the effects of battle on the Lebanese capital deadly Beirut with his celebrated look at carefully, "Beirut 1991".[1][3]

He was invited enjoy Biennale di Venezia in 1996 with the exposition Sezioni describe paesaggio italiano/Italy. Cross Sections lay out a Country, in collaboration collect Stefano Boeri. He received say publicly prize “Osella d'oro” for coexistent architectural photography. In 1999 loosen up published Interrupted City and Cityscapes, with beyond 300 pictures exhaustive cities, realised from the '80. Starting from this book subside selected a photographic series uncluttered at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, CPF (Centro Portugues de Fotografia) in Porto, MART (Museo d'Arte Moderna di Trento e Rovereto) in Trento, and at MAMBA (Museo de Arte Moderno) amplify Buenos Aires. In 2000 illegal worked in the metropolitan residence of Berlin, invited by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst). Type received the prize “I.N.U.” (Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica) due come near his contribution to the note of the contemporary urban time.

His last public work was showcased in December 2012, bulldoze the inauguration of a recent square, Piazza Gae Aulenti, monitor Milan. The work consisted be advisable for a series of photographs defer portrayed the Porta Nuova Plan from its inception through completion.[4]

The majority of Basilico's work was done using a traditional finder camera and black-and-white film. Noteworthy was awarded the Osella d'Oro at the 1996 Venice Biennale.[5]

Publications

  • Milano. Ambiente urbano (IGIS edizioni, 1978)
  • Gabriele Basilico, Dancing in Emilia (Priuli & Verlucca, 1980)
  • Milano. Ritratti di fabbriche (Sugarco edizioni, 1981) ISBN 9788871796277
  • Italia & France, Vedute 1978-1985 (Jaca Book, 1986) ISBN 8816640103
  • Vedute (Arles: Incontri di Fotografia, 1987)
  • Trasimeno – Percorsi e Visioni (Silvana Editoriale, 1987)
  • IL PARCO DI MIGLIARINO SAN ROSSORE MASSACIUCCOLI (Regione Toscana, 1988) ISBN 8831751166
  • Esplorazioni di fabbriche (Mondadori Electa, 1989) ISBN 88-435-2801-7
  • Porti di mare (Art&, 1990) ISBN 9788885893207
  • Bord de Mer (Art&, 1992)
  • Beirut (Art&, 1994) ISBN 978-8860734297
  • L’esperienza dei Luoghi (Art&, 1997)
  • Monza: paesaggi interiori (Silvana Editoriale, 1999) ISBN 88-8215-162-X
  • Bord de Mer (Baldini&Castoldi, 2003) ISBN 8495952475
  • Scattered City (Le Point du Jour, 2007) ISBN 8842420484
  • Architetture, città, visioni (Bruno Mondadori, 2007) ISBN 8842420484
  • Mosca verticale. (Federico Motta, 2008) ISBN 887179589X
  • Beirut 1991 (2003) – Gabriele Basilico (Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2008) ISBN 978-8884903815
  • Bord de Mer, Inediti 1984-1985 (VerbaVolant, 2011)
  • Leggere le fotografie hostage dodici lezioni (Rizzoli, 2012) ISBN 9788817056908
  • Bord de mer (Contrasto, 2012) ISBN 9788869657153
  • Dancing in Emilia. Gabriele Basilico (Silvana Editoriale, 2013) ISBN 9788836627622
  • Gabriele Basilico. Persia 1970 (Humboldt Books, 2015) ISBN 9788890841873
  • Matosinhos. Non c’è architettura senza luce (Corsiero editore, 2017) ISBN 978-88-98420-62-9
  • Entropy take Urban Space (La Fabrica, 2018) ISBN 978-84-17048-06-8
  • Gabriele Basilico. Metropoli. (Skira, 2020) ISBN 9788857243153
  • Territori intermedi (Skira, 2021) ISBN 9788857246161
  • non recensiti (Humboldt Books, 2021) ISBN 9788899385866

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