Gabriele Basilico (1944–2013) - Milano 1996

Original silver gelatine photograph printed on glossy resin-coated paper between 1990 and 2000 with the artist's dry stamp; image size 21x16, overall size 18x24. Excellent condition
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Gabriele Basilico is probably the most internationally renowned photographer of urban landscapes. Born in Milan in 1944, he graduated in architecture in the Lombard capital in ’73, but immediately abandoned the career he had studied for to dedicate himself to photography.

At the beginning of his career he focused on social inquiry. Between the 1970s and 1980s, the influence of his architectural studies gradually made its way into his photography. In 1982 he presented his first international success, Milano. Ritratti di fabbriche (Portraits of Factories). In 1984 he was “enlisted” by the French government for the Mission Photographique de la DATAR, a project documenting the transformation of the landscape. Basilico is the only Italian among the group of selected photographers, and he was assigned the theme “Bord de Mer.”

In 1991 he took part in an important project on the city of Beirut, which was emerging from 15 years of civil war in ruins. Among the ruins six photographers moved about, tasked with imprinting in memory the devastation caused by the conflict in Lebanon: alongside Basilico were René Burri, Robert Frank, Joseph Koudelka, Raymond Depardon and Fouad Elkoury. The photographs taken in Beirut mark his definitive international consecration. From then until the end of his career, interrupted in 2013 by Basilico’s death, the Milanese photographer produced reports on, in no particular order, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Istanbul, the Silicon Valley, Rome, the valleys of Trentino, Moscow.

He published over sixty personal photography books, received numerous international awards, and his photographs have been exhibited worldwide.