Gabriele Basilico

 
Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944-2013) is considered one of the masters of contemporary photography. After graduating in architecture in 1973, he devoted his life to photography. The transformations of the contemporary landscape, the form and identity of the city and the metropolis all served as Gabriele Basilico's privileged fields of research. “Milano ritratti di fabbriche” (1978-80) was the first of his works to focus on outlying industrial areas. In 1984-85 he took part in the Mission Photographique de la DATAR, the project set up by the French government and entrusted to a group of international photographers with the aim of representing the transformation of the national countryside. In 1991 he took part in a mission to Beirut, a city devastated by fifteen years of civil war. Basilico was awarded numerous prizes, and his works are to be found in prestigious public and private collections, both in Italy and around the world. During his career, he published over sixty books of his own works.
 
Gabriele Basilico - Non recensiti
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Gabriele Basilico's previoulsy unpublished photographs in the strip-tease theaters and nightclubs of Milan in the 1970s reveal a new dimension of his oeuvre.
Gabriele Basilico - Free Zone 2006
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In 2006, film director Amos Gitai invited Gabriele Basilico to undertake a journey retracing the locations of the shooting of Gitai's film Free Zone, on the demilitarized zone between Israel and Jordan. This publication follows this unique photographic project.
Gabriele Basilico - Glasgow 1969
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Then architecture student Gabriele Basilico photographs the suburbs of Glasgow on a late summer afternoon of 1969, with its Scottish kids, terrains vagues, and 19th-century industrial archaeology. A photographic baptism for Basilico, who will become one of the main contemporary figures of the medium. The publication of this early series is completed with texts by Umberto Fiori, Pippo Ciorra, and Giovanna Calvenzi.
Gabriele Basilico - Marocco 1971
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Marocco 1971 offers an intimate, social, and aesthetical portrait of Morocco by Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico. Set during the Summer of 1971, the series also brings back the distinctive spirit of this era.
Gabriele Basilico - Iran 1970
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A photographic journey from Yugoslavia to Iran during the 1970's.
Gabriele Basilico - Unidentified Modern City
2011
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
A photographic dialogue (artists' book).
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