Gabriele Basilico

Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944 – 2013) was a leading Italian photographer and is considered to be one of the masters of contemporary Italian and European photography. Within his wide-ranging exploration of the transformation of urban habitats in their transition from the industrial to post-industrial era, the theme of the city, seen as a complex, sophisticated product of the economy and of history, plays a central role.

Motivated by a profound interest in architecture and all the other human manufacts which in the course of time have formed cities, he chose the rigour of a documentary approach to tell, over four decades, the story of the constant process of stratification which has shaped them, in a process of enquiry into the relationship between mankind and space.