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Gianfranco Gorgoni
Gianfranco Gorgoni (24 December 1941 – 11 September 2019) was an Italian photographer who documented land art and installation art. His work was exhibited in a survey show, ''Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs'', at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021. Early life Gorgoni was born in Rome to Italian actress . He became an orphan at the age of 12. Then he grew up in Bomba, Abruzzo, Bomba, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Work Gorgoni photographed Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain (sculptor), John Chamberlain, Joseph Beuys and Truman Capote. For one book, he collaborated with Fidel Castro. He was best known for documenting the creation of outdoor installations of land art, such as his pictures of Robert Smithson's ''Spiral Jetty'', made in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1970. Gorgoni also photographed works by Michael Heizer and by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, in the 1970s. He was hire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianfranco Gorgoni
Gianfranco Gorgoni (24 December 1941 – 11 September 2019) was an Italian photographer who documented land art and installation art. His work was exhibited in a survey show, ''Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs'', at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021. Early life Gorgoni was born in Rome to Italian actress . He became an orphan at the age of 12. Then he grew up in Bomba, Abruzzo, Bomba, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Work Gorgoni photographed Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain (sculptor), John Chamberlain, Joseph Beuys and Truman Capote. For one book, he collaborated with Fidel Castro. He was best known for documenting the creation of outdoor installations of land art, such as his pictures of Robert Smithson's ''Spiral Jetty'', made in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1970. Gorgoni also photographed works by Michael Heizer and by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, in the 1970s. He was hire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |