Gabriele Basilico

Gabriele Basilico is a photographer he shoots architectural, contemporary, urban and industrial landscapes, uninhabited spaces, bright lights and deep shadows. He gives architectural photography a new breath by questioning urban issues of the mid 1970's. Italy inspired his work throughout his life. He has undertaken projects documenting things like modernist architecture in Milan; in this project he seemed to give the impression in the photographs that time had been suspended. He explained that he achieved this through the lighting and the absence of traffic. When Gabriele began his photography career he worked in black and white film however later on he went on to experiment and explore with colour and digital photography. Though he preferred the ominous shades of black and white and the use of classic cameras; particularly his large-format Rolleiflex.
I like the gritty, unromantic look that Gabriele's photographs to them, they contrast to the typical landscape shots that would have been seen around that time. In the two colour images (shown above) you can tell from the run-down buildings and how some are falling apart that these scenes before the viewer are uninhabited. There is a wide tonal range in his black and white photographs, highlighting the darks from the lights; from viewing these images that he has created i think that it could be interesting for me to use post-production to manipulate my photographs to see what they would look like in black and white as i hadn't previously considered having black and white images only colour, it would be ideal to look into this to see what outcomes could be like rather than ruling it out completely without seeing what it could look like.




sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/25/gabriele-basilico
http://www.all-about-photo.com/photographer.php?name=gabriele-basilico&id=312
http://www.galerieannebarrault.com/gabriele_basilico/photo_eng.html