Milano. Ritratti di fabbriche

Gabriele Basilico’s historic photographic volume is once again available.
The updated edition is enriched with shots by one of his important pupils depicting modern Milanese headquarters.

A eulogy to industrial architecture as represented by the mastery of a great Italian photographer. Back again available in an updated edition is Gabriele Basilico’s historic volume, the first major survey of industrial architecture in Milan, which revealed the talent of the then-young photographer, placing him powerfully among the protagonists of the renewal of Italian photography during the 1970s and 1980s, in a process that would lead it definitively into contemporary art.

Gabriele Basilico, one of the masters of contemporary Italian photography, was an artist who was widely recognized internationally. Born in Milan, an architect by training, he began photographing in the early 1970s. The form and identity of cities, the development of metropolises, and the changes taking place in the contemporary post-industrial landscape have always been his privileged areas of research. He has participated in countless public commissioning projects on behalf of major institutions.

His photographs are currently part of prestigious Italian and international public and private collections. Dates to the years 1978-1980 his first major research, “Milan. Portraits of factories,” presented in 1983 at the Pac (Pavilion of Contemporary Art) in Milan.