Antonio Guccione is an extremely refined professional photographer, who has worked for some of the most important magazines and major fashion companies. His work ranges from classic fashion photos, recognizable by the conciseness of the composition and their great expressive force, to specific projects, such as the Vanitas series. Here the artist has reinterpreted, according to the language of classical Seventeenth Century vanitas, iconic characters from history and art, such as Andy Warhol, Pollock, Leonardo da Vinci and photographs dedicated to the theme of the earth and the environment.
Antonio Guccione
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The photographs exhibited at Galleria Vik Milano, dating from the early nineties and taken almost exclusively in New York, see some of the most fascinating women in the panorama of the timeas protagonists. Elle MacPherson, Tyra Banks, Sarah Jessica Parker and Carol Alt, Guccione's subjects are the emblem of a beauty that needs no post - production retouching, further amplified by printing on paper with silver salts, which gives to the final result an almost pictorial value.
As the artist states: "Photography is art. The photographer does not express himself in the click, as many think. This is only the final element of an action. Behind is the individual".
Antonio Guccione was born in 1947 in Sicily. He lived in New York for a long time, before settling permanently in Milan.
Becoming famous for the procession of famous faces that have passed in front of his lens, he has worked with the most prestigious fashion magazines, creating the most important advertising campaigns for Gucci, Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and many others. But above all he has dedicated his life to art and experimentation, becoming one of the most incisive interpreters of our society.
Of the many publications of books dedicated to his works, among the most important are: Absolute Statehood, Faces Of New York and Fashion And Faces. Portraitist of many celebrities, such as Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Moss, Tyra Banks, Giorgio Armani, Federico Fellini and Roberto Bolle. His works are exhibited in some of the most important museums and art galleries in the world.