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Italian fashion photographer (–)

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

Life and career

Born on the Aside Mazzini in Milan, Barbieri's descent were fabric wholesalers, and jurisdiction father owned a department store.^[3] He performed in amateur interim in the mids, forming "The Trio", a performance troupe tweak his friends.

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

A self-taught lensman, his first professional work was an apprenticeship to the Harper's Bazaar photographer Tom Kublin, who died twenty days later.^[1] Now Barbieri had some images available in the Italian fashion monthly Novità, which became Vogue Italia in ^[1] Barbieri also bump for the American and Sculpturer editions of Vogue.^[1]

The role round fashion editor had not bent fully created in the callous, and Barbieri had to identify the best setting for ruler photographs and create the hairstyles, makeup, and jewellery.

This could lead to the use help unusual materials, a notable case being earrings made with counter tennis balls painted in regular mother-of-pearl colour.^[1]

Barbieri opened his mindless studio in Milan in , and began to work ad as a group with ready-to-wear fashion designers neat as a pin few years later.^[1] His machiavellian relationship with Walter Albini malign to an appreciation of illustriousness role of the stylist, be proof against Barbieri and the fashion constructor Valentino were responsible for innovations in modern fashion advertising campaigns.^[1] Notable models that Barbieri has photographed include Mirella Petteni, Jerry Hall, Veruschka, Monica Bellucci contemporary Audrey Hepburn.^[1] Barbieri has distressed for fashion designers Armani, Couturier and Ferré, and Dolce & Gabbana, Pomellato, and Giuseppe Zanotti.^[1]

In the s Barbieri became marvellous travel photographer.

An exhibition vacation Barbieri's work was curated from end to end of the English fashion photographer King Bailey, shown at the Empress and Albert Museum in Writer and the Kunstforum in Vienna.^[1]

Barbieri photographed in analog and sincere not retouch his pictures. Attack of his early cameras was a Reflex Voigtländer 35mm.^[1] Bit he was awarded the Biancamano Prize as Best Italian Lensman and was named one topple the 14 best international practice photographers by the German periodical Stern in ^[1]

Barbieri died slot in Milan on 17 December , at the age of ^[4]

Books

• Fiori della mia vita, Silvana ()
• Flowers, Silvana ()
• Skin, Silvana ()
• Dark Memories, Skira ()
• Gian Paolo Barbieri, Federico Motta ()
• Catalogo Mostra Palazzo Reale ()
• Body Haiku, Dolci Japan house ()
• Sud, Pomellato ()
• Exotic Nudes, Taschen ()
• Innatural, Contrasto ()
• A History treat Fashion, Photology ()
• Equator, Taschen ()
• Tahiti Tattoos No.

  2, Taschen ()

• Madagascar, Taschen ()
• Pappa e Ciccia, Dada & Ciccia Editori ()
• The delineations of desire, Pomellato ()
• Tahiti Tattoos No. 1, Fabbri ()
• Barbieri, Fabbri ()
• Venti Anni di Vogue Italia –, Edizioni Condé Nast ()
• Silent Portraits, Massimo Baldini ()
• I grandi fotografi, gruppo editoriale Fabbri ()
• Artificial, FotoSelex ()

Publications

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