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Where did Gianni Berengo Gardin work from 1953 to 1954?
Gianni Berengo Gardin Gianni Berengo Gardin ( born 1930 ) is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work , but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising . Undoubtedly the most important photographer in Italy in the latter part of the 20th century , [ f ] or more than fifty years Gianni Berengo Gardin has been taking photographs with the humility and passion of a great craftsman . Life and career . Born in Santa Margherita Ligure on 10 October 1930 , Berengo Gardin lived in Switzerland , Rome , Paris and Venice before starting as an amateur photographer in 1954 . As a photographer , he was self-taught , learning photography from two years he spent in Paris working with other photographers . In Berengo Gardins first year as a photographer , 1954 , his first photographs were published in Il Mondo . This magazine , edited by Mario Pannunzio , was one to which both amateurs and professionals liked to submit their work , although until 1959 the photographs were not attributed to particular photographers . It pursued a photographic aesthetic that privileged street scenes and odd , ironic or bizarre encounters in both town and country , and more than a third of the photographs published in Il Mondo were by [ Berengo Gardin ] . His rare capacity for capturing simultaneous actions and objects within the same frame positioned him as an excellent candidate for that street life Pannunzio was after . Berengo Gardin would later have photo essays published in Domus , Epoca , lEspresso , Stern , Time , Vogue Italia ; Réalités ; Le Figaro ; and La Repubblica . He turned professional in 1962 and two years later moved to Milan , where he has lived since 1975 . From 1966 to 1983 Berengo Gardin worked with Touring Club Italiano , providing much or all of the photography for books about regions of Italy and other European countries or their cities : he once identified the high point of his career as The work I did in Great Britain , for the Touring Club in 1978 ( adding that I loved the cars : I had an Austin and an MG ) . He did similar work for the publisher Istituto Geografico De Agostini ( later De Agostini Publishing ) . In 1979 Berengo Gardin started to work with Renzo Piano , photographing the process of designing his buildings . Berengo Gardin also worked with major Italian firms – Alfa Romeo , Fiat , Italsider ( later Ilva ) , Olivetti and others – showing the working life of employees , rather than the products . In the early 1990s , Berengo Gardin spent time living among the Romani people ( Zingari ) of Italy , hoping to show their lives from the inside . This resulted in two highly regarded books , La disperata allegria ( Florence ) and Zingari a Palermo ( 1994 and 1997 ) . Since 1990 Berengo Gardin has been represented by Contrasto . Berengo Gardin remains active in his eighties . A recent assignment , from la Repubblica , was to photograph the giant cruise ships that threaten the ecosystem of Venice . Berengo Gardin has a large archive , with over 1.5 million negatives . The FORMA Foundation ( Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia , an offshoot of Contrasto ) , in Milan , will be managing this archive , including negatives , prints , documents and cameras . ( Other material is at the Museum of Modern Art , New York. ) Berengo Gardin has named as influences on him the French photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson , Willy Ronis , Édouard Boubat and Robert Doisneau ; others have identified the Italian group La Gondola and the American photographer W . Eugene Smith . Gianni Berengo Gardin is one of the great generation of poetic documentarists who like to compose with an idea in mind [ ... ] [ H ] is sympathies have always been with those whose day-to-day activities support the fabric of society : workers , doctors , priests and even itinerant musicians . Vaporetto , Venice , 1960 . Berengo Gardins most renowned image of Venice , often referred to as Vaporetto , Venice , 1960 : was taken in 1960 , on a vaporetto with mirrored doors so that the passengers are trapped in a mosaic of reflections . Simultaneously mundane – the travellers are ordinary commuters – and exotic , it captures the paradox of a city trapped in an excess of representation . Berengo Gardin describes how it came about : I was 30 , living on the Lido in Venice , and every morning I took the vaporetto , or water bus , across to where I worked in San Marco . [ ... ] It was a matter of pure luck , really . I was doing a lot of architectural photography , and this was a spontaneous shot : I only took one picture . In the centre there is a reflection in the glass door of the vaporetto , behind which stands a man all dressed in black . If hed been wearing white , the shot wouldnt have worked . The photograph was included in Berengo Gardins book Venise des saisons ( 1965 ) . It was warmly received ; Henri Cartier-Bresson : ranked [ this photograph ] among the 80 most important photographs ever taken . The co-presence of gazes and of frames within a frame makes it an exceptional in-camera montage of different spaces and human figures , reminiscent of Velasquezs illusions , and suggestive of this photographers multiple artistic influences : the French school of reportage ( Doisneau , Boubat , Ronis ) and a group of Venetian photographers called La Gondola [ ... ] and Eugene Smiths powerful renditions of black and white . At the end of the 1950s this new kind of reportage seemed to reconcile social documentary with the photographers subjective exploration of the world , thus putting an end to the dispute about form and content that had divided many postwar image makers . Books . Berengo Gardin has been the sole contributor or a major contributor to a large number of photobooks : the exact number up to any time depends on various definitions – what a separate book is ( as opposed to a mere new edition ) , what a major contribution is , and more – but one estimate in 2014 put the number at 250 ( and added that only 10 are in colour ) . Morire di classe ( 1969 ) is probably the most celebrated among Berengo Gardins books . Other award-winning books ( see Awards ) include India dei villaggi ( 1981 , about the villages of India ) and La disperata allegria and Zingari a Palermo ( 1994 and 1997 , about the Romani people of Florence and Palermo respectively ) . Books such as Dentro le case and Dentro il lavoro are some of the best journalistic records of how people worked and lived in post-WWII Italy . Exhibitions . Berengo Gardin has had many exhibitions : the number was described in 2008 as around 200 . A small sample are listed below . - Architectural Association , London , 1961 - Le Guilde du Livre , Lausanne , 1965 - Il nuovo impegno . Il Diaframma , Milan , November 1968 . Exhibition by Berengo Gardin , and Toni Nicolini . - Napoli 81 . Sette fotografi per una nuova immagine . Naples , December 1981 – January 1982 . Photographs of Naples by Berengo Gardin , Mario Cresci , Roberto Salbitani , Franco Fontana , Luigi Ghirri , Mimmo Jodice , and Antonia Mulas . - Fotografie di Gianni Berengo Gardin per Il Mondo dal 1954 al 1965 . Palazzo Dugani , Milan , January–February 1985 . - Trouver Trieste . Eiffel tower , November 1985 – June 1986 . Photographs of Trieste by various photographers . - Bologna Museum of Modern Art , 1987 - Rencontres internationales de la photographie dArles , July–August 1987 . - Refettorio delle , Milan , 1988 - Photographs of women . Rome , 1989 . - Milan , 1990 . - Paris , 1990 - Musée de lÉlysée , Lausanne , 1991 - Fotografi italiani , Accademia Carrara , Bergamo , 1993 - Gianni Berengo Gardin , un nomade fotografo . Giardino delle Oblate , Florence , October 1994 . About Romani people in Florence . - Ring . Galleria darte moderna , Bologna , 1994 . Photographs by Berengo Gardin and Gabriele Basilico . - Artelaguna 95 : opere darte per la laguna di Venezia . June–July 1995 . - The Italian Metamorphosis , 1943–1968 ( group exhibition ) . Solomon R . Guggenheim Museum , New York , October 1994 – January 1995 . - Leica Gallery , New York , 1999 . - Gianni Berengo Gardin , Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau , Paris , 1997 ; Museo civico del Santo , Padua , 2001 ; Palazzo delle Esposizioni , Rome , 2001 ; Biblioteca Panizzi , Reggio Emilia , 2002 ; Auditorium , Rome , 2004 ; La Triennale di Milano , 2004 - Pagine di fotografia italiana 1900–1998 , Fondazione Galleria Gottardo , Lugano , 1998 - Memorie di un dilettante : Vintage prints 1952–1960 . Galleria Minima Peliti Associati , June–July 1998 . - Exhibition related to Giò Pomodoro . International Cairo Biennale , in Cairo , December 1998 – February 1999 . - Palazzo delle Esposizioni , Rome , 2001 - Retrospective . Museo Civico di Padova , Padua , June–October 2001 . - Les Choix dHenri Cartier-Bresson ( group exhibition ) . Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation , Paris , 2003 . - Toscana , gente e territorio . About the people and land of Tuscany . Fondazione Ragghianti ( Lucca ) , July–October 2004 . - Miracolo a Pisogne . Pisogne , 2004 . About the sculptor and the painter Girolamo Romanino . - Piazza Lucretius , 2005 . - Cesare Zavattini . Tra letteratura , cinema , pittura . Pinacoteca Civica di Latina , October–December 2005 . About Cesare Zavattini . - Gianni Berengo Gardin . Maison européenne de la photographie , Paris , February–May 2005 . - Laltro sguardo = Mit anderen Augen = A distinct regard . Bolzano , July–October 2005 . About Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and European Union Youth Orchestra . - Travelling exhibition about the Hera Group . - Andrea Martinelli : il volto e lombra . , Milan , November–December 2005 ; Rustin Foundation , Antwerp , March–June 2006 ; Frisia Museum , Spanbroek-Amsterdam , July–October 2006 . About the works of the painter Andrea Martinelli . - Leopardi : la biblioteca , la casa , linfinito . Palazzo Ducale , Urbino , September–October 2006 . On the house and library of Giacomo Leopardi . - Exhibition about Carlo Scarpa . Museo Palladio , Vicenza , June–July 2006 . - Un paesaggio italiano . Travelling exhibition about Giovo . - Exhibition of photographs of the studio of Andrea Martinelli . Casa Cavalier Pellanda , Biasca , December 2007 – February 2008 . - Exhibition about Andrea Martinelli . Milan , 2008 . - Mimmo Paladino : ortissima . , Orta San Giulio , July–November 2009 . - Peggy Guggenheim , la casa , gli amici , Venezia . Arca , , Vercelli , October–December 2009 . About Peggy Guggenheim . - Exhibition about Camogli . Fondazione Pier Luigi e Natalina Remotti , Camogli , Italy , October 2009 – January 2010 . - Reportrait : incursioni di un reporter nel mondo della cultura = Incursions of a reporter into the world of culture . , Orta San Giulio , May–October 2009 . Portraits . - Nei luoghi di Piero della Francesca ; Arezzo , Anghiari , Sansepolcro = In Piero della Francesca places . Photographs by Berengo Gardin and Elliott Erwitt . Palazzo Pichi Sforza , Sansepolcro , March–June 2010 . - Terra da vivere . , Figline Valdarno , February–May 2011 . - Gianni Berengo Gardin . Storie di un fotografo . Casa dei Tre Oci , Venice , February–May 2013 . - Gianni Berengo Gardin . Storie di un fotografo . Palazzo Reale , June–September 2013 . - Caffè Florian , September–October 2013 . - Gianni Berengo Gardin : Storie di un fotografo . Curated by Denis Curti . Palazzo Ducale , Genoa , February–June 2014 . - Mostri a Venezia ( Monsters of Venice ) . , Milan , 2014 . Concerning the problems of large cruise ships in Venice . - The Sense of a Moment : Gianni Berengo Gardin . Prahlad Bubbar Gallery , London , April–May 2014 . ( It is the first time Berengo Gardin has shown in Britain since 1975 , when Bill Brandt included him in his seminal landscape show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ) - Venezia e le grandi navi . Negozio Olivetti , Venice , – January 2016 . - Vera fotografia : Reportage , immagini , incontri . Palazzo delle Esposizioni , Rome , May–August 2016 . Curated by Alessandra Mammì and Alessandra Mauro . Awards . - World Press Photo award ( 1963 ) - Scanno prize ( 1981 ) for the book India dei villaggi ( about the villages of India ) - Brassaï prize at the in Paris ( 1990 ) - Leica Oskar Barnack Award ( 1995 ) at Rencontres internationales de la photographie dArles for the book La disperata allegria : vivere da zingari a Firenze ( about the Romani people of Florence ) - Oscar Goldoni prize ( 1998 ) for the book Zingari a Palermo ( about the Romani people of Palermo ) - Lucie Awards Lifetime Achievement ( 2008 ) - Honorary degree , University of Milan ( 2009 ) . Collections . - Calcografia Nazionale , Rome ; since 1975 Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica - Archive of the photography group La Gondola , Venice - , University of Parma - Centro per la Fotografia San Marino Immagine , San Marino - Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta , Milan - Galleria Civica di Modena - Istituto di Storia dellArte , University of Pisa - , Brescia - Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris . 76 photographs . - Maison européenne de la photographie , Paris - FNAC , Paris - Musée de lÉlysée , Lausanne - Fondation Select , Lausanne - Museum of Modern Art , New York - United Nations headquarters , New York - Eastman House , Rochester , NY ( now George Eastman Museum ) Further viewing . - Gianni Berengo Gardin . Rome : GIART/Contrasto , 2009 . In the series Fotografia italiana : 5 film , 5 grandi fotografi .