GIAN PAOLO BARBIERI: BEYOND FASHION
House of Lucie Ostuni and The Lucie Awards
in collaboration with
Fondazione Gian Paolo Barbieri and 29 Arts In Progress gallery
present
GIAN PAOLO BARBIERI: BEYOND FASHION
To the master who made his mark on the history of contemporary fashion photography.
Gian Paolo Barbieri managed to give a unique perspective to Italian fashion that no one had yet imagined, becoming a friend and ally to the designers who the advent of made in Italy transformed into the protagonists of a new era of costume and fashion.
Barbieri – the 2018 winner of the Lucie Award for Best International Fashion Photographer (Outstanding Achievement in Fashion) – is always a special photographer: in his carefully studied and balanced use of lighting, through his longstanding familiarity with cinema and theatre, in the makeup and the suspended stillness of the poses.
Gian Paolo Barbieri fascinates, surprises, touches the heart and mind of the viewer. This is also the purpose of photography and, more broadly, of art.
About the artist
Gian Paolo Barbieri
Born in Milan to a family of fabric wholesalers, Gian Paolo Barbieri performed in amateur dramatics in the 1950s and had a non-speaking role in Visconti's Medea. Influenced by cinema, he photographed models in 1960s Rome and was part of the social scene depicted in Fellini's La Dolce Vita. A self-taught photographer, Barbieri apprenticed under Harper's Bazaar photographer Tom Kublin and later shot for Italian, American, and French Vogue. He opened his own Milan studio in 1964, worked closely with ready-to-wear designers, and photographed models including Jerry Hall, Monica Bellucci,…