SIGNED Gianni Berengo Gardin - Reportrait - 2009

Exceptionally signed edition on the title page by Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930 - 2025), unique and unattainable in a signed copy. 256 pages and about 200 black-and-white photographs full-page and a few double-page spreads, text in Italian by Flavio Arensi. Sturdy beige publisher’s hardcover binding with the title impressed in blind on the spine in black characters and an 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 the people he encountered in the streets. For the first time, this volume gathers portraits of intellectuals, artists, photographers, musicians, architects, actors, encountered by chance or by friendship or within the scope of his professional activity. In fact they could seem like anonymous subjects captured in a pause, and some of them will become so, because time erases the celebrity that seemed enduring." (from Flavio Arensi’s text)

Many portraits and some self-portraits. Among all these portraits, numerous 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 plasticians, 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 Biennale protest of 1968), filmmakers (Tinto Brass, Federico Fellini, Nanni Moretti, Ermanno Olmi), composers or conductors (Pavarotti, Ennio Morricone, Luigi Nono, Claudio Abbado). Publishers (Mario Peliti, Inge Feltrinelli, Roberto Cerati), fashion designers like Giorgio Armani, architects like Renzo Piano or Gio Ponti, the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, and many others. When he could not photograph certain personalities who had passed away, Berengo Gardin photographed the places where they worked: Dostoevsky’s office, Cezanne’s studio, Giorgio Morandi’s studio.

Edition in excellent condition, practically like new. A personal collection copy kept as-is with the utmost care. Protected shipping with reinforced packaging and insured international postal tracking. For multiple purchases, possible grouped shipping with refund of overpaid postage via PayPal.

2.2 kg excluding packaging