Gianni Berengo-Gardin
Vaporetto, Venice

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Artist Gianni Berengo-Gardin(Italian, born 1930)Italian, born 1930

CultureItalian

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Vaporetto, Venice

Date1960, printed later

PlaceVenice, Italy

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 3/8 × 15 1/16 in. (26.4 × 38.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 15 7/8 in. (30.5 × 40.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Franci Neely

Object number2000.592

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionBerengo-Gardin described this layered puzzle of a picture, made on the Venetian vaporetto (water bus), one winter morning as men headed to work: “It was a matter of pure luck, really. I was doing a lot of architectural photography, and this was a spontaneous shot: I only took one picture. In the center there is a reflection in the glass door of the vaporetto, behind which stands a man all dressed in black. If he’d been wearing white, the shot wouldn’t have worked.”
ProvenanceAnne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 2000.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Postwar Italian Photograph" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, February 2 to April 28, 2002.

“A History of Photography II: Selections from the Museum's Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 17–July 19, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso, lower right: Il VAPORETTO / Venezia, 1960

bottom right below image in ink and verso below stamp bottom right: Gianni Berengo Gardin

verso lower right a stamp: © / Gianni Berengo Gardin / Via S. Michele del Corso, 21 / 20144 MILANO-Tel. 02/4692877

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