Gelatin silver print, printed in 2013 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 15 in)
Signed, titled and dated by the photographer in ink on the reverse, four of his photographer’s stamps on the reverse
PROVENANCE directly from the photographer

A winner of the Oskar Barnack Prize, Gianni Berengo Gardin began his career as a photo reporter for the weekly newspaper Il Mondo in the mid-1950s. Later, his photographs were published by magazines like Domus, Epoca, Time and Stern and in the daily papers Le Figaro and L’espresso. When he moved from Venice to Milan in 1964, he turned to fashion and still-life photography. Guy Mandery wrote about him: “Berengo Gardin too is first and foremost a discoverer – of situations, people, landscapes and objects.
Often, his talent consists in conveying an unadorned and non-artificial image of things – as they are, in the raw and unprocessed. It is pointless to accuse him of a lack of style, for it quickly becomes apparent that the supposed lack of style is his very special manner.” The present photograph is presumably Gianni Berengo Gardin’s most famous motif, taken on a vaporetto, a kind of water omnibus – the most frequentlyused mode of transportation in Venice. The image is convincing in its complexity, the concurrence of perspectives, vistas and reflections which form an almost surreal conglomerate for the duration of a second.