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Item Number: 132689
Title: GABRIELE BASILICO : Urbanscapes
Author: Calvenzi, Giovanna ; Marco Meier
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788857225982
Description: Milano: Skira, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 80pp., 57 b&w, 11 color plates. German-English text. Exhibition held at Kunstmuseum, Lucerne. Summary: Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013) was one of the most important representatives of architectural photography. After studying architecture, in the 1970s he began photographing the transformation of the urban landscape. He was particularly interested in cityscapes, and his pictures show the modern age and its architecture in the most beautiful light. He became famous through his black and white photographs of industrial buildings on the periphery of Milan, for which he directed his lens at isolated elements such as chimneys and facades. His coolly elegant photographs are emphatically objective and deserted. He documented the changes in European port cities as well as the destruction of Beirut in the civil war. The architect Aldo Rossi said no other photographer had made ‘the typologies of urban planning’ so intensely visible in his pictures. The Lucerne Verein Fotokammer, established in 2013, is dedicated to the appreciation of analogue photography without nostalgic transfiguration. With Gabriele Basilico, in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Luzern the association is granting an internationally renowned photographer his first solo exhibition in Switzerland after his death.
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