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Gian Paolo Barbieri is born in Via Mazzini, to a family of textile wholesalers. It is in his father’s textile warehouse that he acquires the competence that will become helpful in his fashion photography.

He quickly moves his first steps in the theatrical field becoming an actor, operator and costume designer together with the “Trio”, a theatrical group formed with two friends, in the remaking of some parts of famous movies such as Tobacco Road, The Life of Toulouse Lautrec and Sunset Boulevard.

Later on, he was entrusted a small non-spoken part in ”Medea” by Luchino Visconti, with Sara Ferrati and Memo Benassi.

American noir cinema constitutes an important foundation for him, trying to figure out how the actresses could turn out to be so beautiful with the use of unique lightings making them look even more enchanting. Having never attended any photography school he would conduct innumerable experiments in his basement with light bulbs slipped into the pipe of a stove.

Movies gave him the sense of movement and the chance of carrying the Italian fashion from a footboard with a white backdrop, to the outdoors, giving it a different soul.

With the opportunity to move to Rome, and thanks to the first photos shot in pure “Dolce Vita” climate, Barbieri accepts the offer to work in Paris since was defined talented in fashion photography. He so begins his career as assistant to the photographer of “Harper’s Bazar”, Tom Kublin, for a brief but intense period, since Kublin will later miss for an ictus only 20 days later.

In 1964 he returns in Milan opening his first photographic studio, where he starts to work in fashion shooting simple samples and publishing photographic services on Novità, the magazine that subsequently, in 1966, it will become Vogue Italia.

From that moment he begins his collaboration with Condè Nast, also publishing on international magazines such as Vogue America, Vogue Paris and Vogue Germany.

In 1968 “Stern” magazine classifies him as one of the fourteen best fashion photographers in the world panorama.

Celebrities of the scene such as Diana Vreeland, Yves Saint Laurent and Richard Avedon, belong as part of his important history but also collaborating with iconic actresses of all time from Audrey Hepburn to Veruschka and Jerry Hall.

Fundamental stop of his course is the experience with Vogue Italy together with the carrying out of the biggest advertising campaigns for international brands like Valentino, Gianni Versace, Gianfranco Ferré, Armani, Bulgari, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Vivienne Westwood and many more with which it has interpreted the famous creations of the 80s, in concomitance with the conquest of the Made in Italy and of the Italian prêt-à-porter.

The nineties lead Barbieri to complete different journeys to the discovery of cultures without limits united with the curiosity by faraway countries and ethnic groups, by nature and for the most disparate objects according to his inspirations, giving life then, to wonderful photographic books in whose places and faraway realities they are told through his impeccable taste.

Even though the photos are in outside and often immediate or fleeting, they turn out to be so “perfect” to seem taken in a studio, blending the spontaneity of the population and of the places with the elegance and a the style that typically mark him, managing to weave the spontaneity of the ethnographic photography to the glamour of the photography of fashion.

To this day Barbieri continues to be requested as a photographer and artist for fashion advertising campaigns, editorials and exposing his works at the Victoria & Albert Museum at the National Portrait Gallery of London at the Kunsforum in Vienna and at the MAMM in Moscow.

 

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Vogue Paris October 1985

"Les Riches Heures"
Model: Linda Evangelista
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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Vogue Italia December 1986
"Un Grano di Follia, Vari Carati e Preziosismi di Pellicce"
Model: Kristen McMenamy
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Hair: Kerry Warn
Makeup: José Luis

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Vogue Italia January 1988
"Forma e Slancio"
Model: Aly Dunne 
Photographer: Giampaolo Barbieri
Hair: Franco Lorusso
Makeup: Nando Chiesa

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Vogue Italia #1 February 1987
"Prêt-â-porter: Novità Francia - Supersexy Ieri, Oggi Piccante..."
Models: Laetitia Firmin-Didot, Monica Gripman, Lisa Kauffman & Unknown
Photographer: Giampaolo Barbieri
Hair: Kerry Warn
Makeup: Heidi Moravetz

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Vogue Italia July/August 1985
"Magia in Visione e Cincilla'"
Model: Unknown
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Hair: Franco
Makeup: José Luis

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Vogue Italia January 1988
"L'Anno delle Sexy Babies"
Models: Tully Jensen & Unknown 
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Hair: Franco Lorusso
Makeup: Nando Chiesa

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Vogue Italia November 1985

"Persiano Smitizzato In una Storia Neorealista"
Model: Arielle Burgelin 
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

Hair: Franco

Makeup: Nando Chiesa

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Dayle by Condorpelli Fall/Winter 85.86 (Advertisements)

Model: Unknown

Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia November 1985)

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Vogue Italia December 1989

"Tattoo"
Model: Sebastian Cardin
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Stylist: Anna Piaggi

Hair: Aldo Coppola

Makeup: Nando Chiesa

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Fumi Gioilliere 1989 (Advertisement)

Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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Carlo Tivioli 1999 (Advertisement)

Model: Marisa Berenson

Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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Roccobarocco Fall/Winter 99.00 (Advertisements)

Model: Alice Dodd

Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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WARNING: Nudity (See through)

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Folligiie Jewerly 1996 (Advertisement)

Model: Maria Menarini

Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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Vogue Paris March 1973
Models: Jeanette Christiansen and Ingmari Lamy 
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Hair: Dina, Alexandre & Régis

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Vogue Paris September 1973
"Que L'Orient le Soir a L'Occident S'Allie..."
Models: Susan Bottomly, Jeanette Christiansen & Ingmari Lamy 
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Hair: Dina

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Vogue Paris September 1973
"Italie"
Model: Chris Royer
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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Vogue Paris June/July 1974

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"Sourdan Pays"
Model: Jill Kennigton
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri

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Vogue Italia Covers

 

November 1965: Benedetta Barzini 

July 1972: Apollonia van Ravenstein

March 1973: Shelley Hack

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Vogue Paris August 1974
Models: Carole Singleton, Susan Bottomly, Pat Cleveland, Cheryl Tiegs & Unknown
Photographer: Gianpaolo Barbieri
Hair: Jean-Marc Maniatis
Makeup: Jacques Clemente & Patrick Hourcade

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