Signed Gianni Berengo Gardin - Reportrait - 2009

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930 - 2025), unique and unavailable in a signed edition. 256 pages and about 200 full-page black-and-white photographs, some in double-page spreads, Italian text by Flavio Arensi. Solid beige hardcover binding with title embossed in black on the back and illustrated dust jacket. In excellent condition, practically like new.

"Berengo Gardin has always photographed people who are usually not photographed, those who are at work or people encountered in the streets. For the first time, the portraits of intellectuals, artists, photographers, musicians, architects, actors encountered by chance or friendship or within his professional activity are gathered in this volume. In fact they could seem like anonymous subjects caught in a pause, and some will become so because time erases the celebrity that seemed lasting." (from Flavio Arensi's text)

Among all these portraits, many photographers (Elliott Erwitt, William Klein, Cesare Colombo, Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ferdinando Scianna, Martine Franck, Mario Giacomelli, Fulvio Roiter, Elisabetta Catalano, René Burri, Mario De Biasi, Luciano D’Alessandro, Francesco Cito, Ugo Mulas, Gabriele Basilico, Paolo Monti, Bruno Barbey, Salgado) and many artists or visual artists, painters, sculptors (Andy Warhol, Giorgio De Chirico, Emilio Vedova, Gio Pomodoro, Adolfo Vallazza, Francesco Messina, Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto), as well as many art critics. Many writers and poets (Italo Calvino, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Umberto Eco, Dino Buzzati, Cesare Zavattini, Leonardo Sciascia, Allan Ginsberg, Antonio Tabucchi, Mario Soldati, Giorgio Soavi, Giorgio Bassani, Pier Paolo Pasolini during the 1968 Biennale protests), filmmakers (Tinto Brass, Federico Fellini, Nanni Moretti, Ermanno Olmi), composers or conductors such as Pavarotti, Ennio Morricone, Luigi Nono, Claudio Abbado). Publishers (Mario Peliti, Inge Feltrinelli, Roberto Cerati), stylists like Giorgio Armani, architects such as Renzo Piano or Gio Ponti, psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, and many more. When he could not photograph certain personalities who had passed away, Gianni Berengo Gardin photographed the places where they worked, Dostoevsky’s desk, Cézanne’s studio, Morandi’s studio.

Exemplary in excellent condition, practically like new. A book from my personal collection kept in its original state with the utmost care. Shipped protected with reinforced packaging and international tracked shipping guaranteed. For multiple purchases, grouped shipping is possible with a refund of any excess postage paid via PayPal.

2.2 kg excluding packaging.