© Copyright 2024 ANIMICA PORTRAITS OFFICIAL – Project Copyright Barbara Pigazzi – Design with Marco Luce – Tutti i Diritti Riservati – PIVA 05209460285 – REA VE-457293
Today we mourn the passing of Gianni Berengo Gardin, a giant of Italian and international photography. More than just a photographer, he was a perceptive and sensitive witness of his time, a master of visual storytelling who captured the soul of our country and its people with his unmistakable black and white.
Born in Santa Margherita Ligure in 1930, Berengo Gardin began his career in the 1950s, a time of great change and turmoil. His camera was not a tool for recording, but a means of understanding and narrating. He immortalized the faces and stories of ordinary people, urban transformations, industrial landscapes, life in mental institutions (as in the famous series of reportages in L’Aquila and Trieste), social struggles, and moments of family intimacy. His style, clean and rigorous, was always based on respect for the subject, avoiding manipulation and sensationalism.
Berengo Gardin was not just a professional, but an intellectual who used photography as a form of civic engagement. He always fought for the dignity of his work and for the protection of copyright, forcefully defending the ethical and aesthetic value of photography. He was a craftsman, deeply connected to darkroom printing, convinced that photography was a process that was only completed with the creation of the final print, an object that carried within it the history and touch of the photographer.
His immense legacy is not limited to over 250 publications and countless exhibitions. Berengo Gardin leaves us a method, an approach to photography based on honesty, curiosity, and profound empathy. He teaches us that a photograph is not just an image, but a window on the world, a fragment of history that has the power to make us reflect.
Your passing leaves an immeasurable void, but your gaze will forever remain etched in our minds and hearts. At Animica Art Gallery, we want to express our deepest gratitude for everything you have given us through your art. We will miss you, maestro, but your spirit will live on in your works, a beacon of honesty and beauty for future generations.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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