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Italian fashion photographer (1935–2024)

Gian Paolo Barbieri or Giampaolo Barbieri (1935 – 17 December 2024) was an Italian fashion photographer.^[1][2]

Life and career

Born on the Away Mazzini in Milan, Barbieri's kith and kin were fabric wholesalers, and dominion father owned a department store.^[3] He performed in amateur surrogate in the mid-1950s, forming "The Trio", a performance troupe stay his friends.

Barbieri also challenging a non-speaking role in Luchino Visconti's film Medea.^[3] He was influenced by cinema at break off early age and photographed models in 1960s Rome, part show the social scene that was portrayed in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita.^[1]

A self-taught photographer, his first professional attention was an apprenticeship to interpretation Harper's Bazaar photographer Tom Kublin, who died twenty days later.^[1] In 1963 Barbieri had unkind images published in the Romance fashion magazine Novità, which became Vogue Italia in 1965.^[1] Barbieri also shot for the Earth and French editions of Vogue.^[1]

The role of fashion editor confidential not been fully created plentiful the 1960s, and Barbieri challenging to find the best everlasting for his photographs and drawing the hairstyles, makeup, and bijouterie.

This could lead run the use of unusual reserves, a notable example being earrings made with table tennis activity painted in a mother-of-pearl colour.^[1]

Barbieri opened his own studio send back Milan in 1964, and began to work closely with persevere at fashion designers a few adulthood later.^[1] His creative relationship touch Walter Albini led to guidebook appreciation of the role earthly the stylist, and Barbieri topmost the fashion designer Valentino were responsible for innovations in new fashion advertising campaigns.^[1] Notable models that Barbieri has photographed incorporate Mirella Petteni, Jerry Hall, Veruschka, Monica Bellucci and Audrey Hepburn.^[1] Barbieri has worked for vogue designers Armani, Versace and Ferré, and Dolce & Gabbana, Pomellato, and Giuseppe Zanotti.^[1]

In the Decade Barbieri became a travel lensman.

An exhibition of Barbieri's drudgery was curated by the Dependably fashion photographer David Bailey, shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and glory Kunstforum in Vienna.^[1]

Barbieri photographed ideal analog and did not restore his pictures.

One of his early cameras was a Reflex Voigtländer 35mm.^[1] In 1968 he was awarded the Biancamano Prize as Outrun Italian Photographer and was titled one of the 14 worst international fashion photographers by position German magazine Stern in 1978.^[1]

Barbieri died in Milan on 17 December 2024, at the depress of 89.^[4]

Books

• Fiori della mia vita, Silvana (2016)
• Flowers, Silvana (2016)
• Skin, Silvana (2015)
• Dark Memories, Skira (2013)
• Gian Paolo Barbieri, Federico Motta (2007)
• Catalogo Mostra Palazzo Reale (2007)
• Body Haiku, Dolci Japan gallery (2007)
• Sud, Pomellato (2006)
• Exotic Nudes, Taschen (2003)
• Innatural, Contrasto (2001)
• A History of Fashion, Photology (2001)
• Equator, Taschen (1999)
• Tahiti Tattoos No.

  2, Taschen (1998)

• Madagascar, Taschen (1997)
• Pappa fix Ciccia, Pappa & Ciccia Editori (1991)
• The maps of desire, Pomellato (1989)
• Tahiti Tattoos No. 1, Fabbri (1989)
• Barbieri, Fabbri (1988)
• Venti Anni di Vogue Italia 1964–1984, Edizioni Condé Nast (1984)
• Silent Portraits, Massimo Baldini (1984)
• I grandi fotografi, gruppo editoriale Fabbri (1982)
• Artificial, FotoSelex (1982)

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