Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930) - Italia, Ospedale Psichiatrico, 1968

Vintage gelatin silver print
cm 30,1 x 39,7 (cm 22,8 x 29,5 picture) | 11.9 x 15.6 in. (9 x 11.6 in. picture)
Titled, dated and signed in black ink with green photographer's credit stamp on the verso

LITERATURE
Gianni Berengo Gardin, Vera fotografia. Reportage immagini incontri, Contrasto, Milan, 2016, pp. 22-23

In the year that celebrates the centenary of the birth of the doctor Antonio Basaglia, to whom we owe the abolition of mental asylums, it is nice to propose these two images taken inside psychiatric institutions by Gianni Berengo Gardin, who fought that battle against institutions with his extraordinary mean: photography.