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Italian photographer (born 1930)

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",^[1] "[f]or more than fifty years Gianni Berengo Gardin has been taking photographs with the humility and passion of a great craftsman."^[2]

Life and career

Born in Santa Margherita Ligure on 10 October 1930,^[3]: 12 Berengo Gardin lived in Switzerland, Rome, Paris and Venice before starting as an amateur photographer in 1954.^[4] As a photographer, he was self-taught, learning photography from two years he spent in Paris working with other photographers.^[5]

In Berengo Gardin's first year as a photographer, 1954, his first photographs were published in I