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I'm 27 y.o.
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Crowngallery - Gabriele Basilico
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Apr 25, 4:31am
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•http://www.crowngallery.be/basilico.htm
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Beirut 1991 - 91A6 - 555C
GABRIELE BASILICO was born in 1944 in Milan.
In 1973, after qualifying in architecture at Milan Polytechnic, he began to take photographs, concentrating on the city and the urban landscape.
He worked on a lot of different commissions through out Europe.
He became one of the most important urbane landscape photographers.
In 1991, one year after the end of a war that lasted fifteen years, he took part in a photographic mission on Beirut. "Before the war Beirut was never just a city, it was an idea of coexistence and the spirit of tolerance: diverse religious communities (Shiites, Sunnis, Christians and Druses) could live together without having to abandon their individual identities." (Thomas Friedman)
"The result of Basilico's photographs, while maintaining an objective and analytical edge, has an ambivalent and disconcerting feeling. It is a document of a horrendous past and at the same time a blue print for an unpredictable future. They are much more a question than a statement, they are not a judgment on war but a reflection on what a city is left with once war eventually ends and life resumes its course. The idea of the city remains intact even if its political and social structures have been attacked. Looking at the photo's of Beirut, where buildings stand with no less dignity than the Colosseum in Rome's traffic jam, we have to consider how these images will be handled and how they will affect the future history of the city both in terms of architectural development and as a reference point of a time that runs the risk of being forgotten." (Francesco Bonami)
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