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Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944-2013) is probably the most famous urban landscape photographer in the world. After graduating in architecture, since the early seventies he devoted himself to photography, at first of social investigation, then the influence of his studies gradually made space in his photography. In 1982 he presented his first international success, Milan. Portraits of factories. In 1984 he was called by the French government to participate in the Mission Photographique de la DATAR, a project to document the transformation of the landscape. In 1991 he took part in the important project on the city of Beirut, which marked his definitive international consecration. From that moment until the end of his career interrupted by his death in 2013, Basilico will make numerous reportages on, in no particular order, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Istanbul, Silicon Valley, Rome, the valleys of Trentino, Moscow. He has published over sixty personal photo books, received numerous international awards and his photographs have been exhibited all over the world. Among the latest titles published, Basilico Milano (2015), the trilogy dedicated to the first years of work: Iran 1970, Morocco 1971 (both 2016) and Glasgow 1969 (2017 ); the new updated and expanded edition of Bord de Mer (2017), Piranesi Roma Basilico (2019), Territori intermedi (2021), Non recensiti (2021) and Milano ritratti di fabbriche quarant'anni dopo (2022). With texts by Gabriele Basilico, Giovanna Calvenzi, Tanino Musso, Fouad Elkoury, Rita Capezzuto, Alessandro Ferrario, Christian Caujolle, Gabriel Bauret and a Chronology by Farian Sabahi.

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