Gianni Berengo Gardin. Reportrait. Incursioni nel Mondo della cultura. Incursions of a reporter into the world of culture. [Edizione italiana e inglese]

Berengo Gardin has always photographed people who would otherwise never have been seen through a viewfinder. The over two hundred pictures in this book now reveal his incursions into the world of international culture. From Andy Warhol to Federico Zeri and Graham Sutherland, through to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Renzo Piano, Ermano Olmi, and the 1968 protests against the Venice Biennale, this volume retraces an extraordinary collection of portraits.
Every shot brings out the distinctive vision of a man whom Italo Zannier, in his Storia della fotografia italiana, referred to as "the most remarkable post-war photographer".
In his introduction, Flavio Arensi writes: "Since 2001 Gianni Berengo Gardin has been marking his prints with a stamp that shows the power of his long-term project: ?Authentic photograph. Not corrected, modified or invented on the computer'. He shapes the borders of the reporter?s profession, not bowing to the demands of taste, but simply recording reality without intervening. And that is it: reality. It is not that of the poet or, more in general, of the artist, for it acquires documentary form. At times, and with pleasure, I feel he enjoys going against any erudite interpretations of his works, returning to that of his own original profession".