Gian Paolo Barbieri
Gianpaolo Barbieri was born in Via Mazzini, in the center of Milan in 1938, into a family of wholesalers
of fabrics. Right in the department store of his father tissue acquires the powers
will be useful in making his fashion photography. As with other large, Armani, for example, is the theater
to exert a powerful fascination on the imagination, so much to do to enroll in the school of acting
Amateur Dramatics Theatre, between 1956 and 1957. Together with two friends form “The Trio” and the house of
Parents are the sentimental dramas: “Double,” “La Traviata”, “A Streetcar
Named Desire. “Later he was given a small part is not spoken in “Medea”
Luchino Visconti with Sara Ferrati and Memo Benassi. Become an actor, and costume with operator
his “Trio” in the rebuilding of some parts of famous movies such as: Tobacco Road, The Life of
Toulouse Lautrec and Sunset Boulevard. American cinema of the 50s is a basis
important to him, the plays of Tennessee Williams or actors like James Dean, Marlon Brando or
Lana Turner and Ava Gardner still, beautiful women illuminated by a light that very special
made even more fascinating. When he went to the cinema trying to understand how these actresses
could be so beautiful so when he came home he used everything in the cellar
to recreate the light, take the bulbs and put them in the stove pipe but with time he learned
serving Fresnel lenses and reflectors, but could not know, not having attended any school. The film gave him the sense of movement and the opportunity to bring the Italian fashion, born ofin the white mat, outdoors, giving it a different soul. 
His spectacular editorials have been published in Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, and GQ, among others, and his images of Audrey Hepburn, Angelica Huston, and Iman are among the most famous fashion photographs of all time. EXOTICA is a selection of his sumptuous, dreamy photographs of the people and wildlife of Madagascar, Tahiti, and the Seychelles. The luscious duotone images of frangipani blossoms, banana plants, and sculpted bodies in an enticing tropical paradise reveal Barbieri’s deep affinity for nature and Polynesian culture. This show also includes a number of Barbieri’s well-known shots of full-body Tahitian tattoos, captured with a brilliant, exacting eye.
BARBIERI is the author of Exotic Nudes, Madagascar, Equator, and Beauty Case (all published by Taschen). In addition to magazine work, he has collaborated extensively with fashion houses, including Valentino, Armani, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, and Vivienne Westwood. He has previously shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Kunstforum, Vienna.
Barbieri website: http://www.gianpaolobarbieri.com/
