Posted March 31, 20187 yr ELLE ITALIA, MARCH 1998 "Leggermente" Photographer:Giovanni Gastel Model:Margherita Suppini Styling:Micaela Sessa Make up:Alessandra Casoni/Freelancer Hair:Maurizio Kulpherk/Giovanni di MuroScanned by Rosie Nikolaeva
March 31, 20187 yr Author ELLE ITALIA, NOVEMBER 1997''Neo Barocco'' Photographer:Giovanni Gastel Models:Margherita Suppini & 1 utm Styling:Micaela Sessa Make up:Alessandra Casoni Scanned by Rosie Nikolaeva
April 1, 20187 yr Quote Biography Giovanni Gastel was born in Milan on December 27th, 1955 to Giuseppe Gastel and Ida Visconti di Modrone, the last of seven children. In 1967, at the age of twelve, Gastel starts showing his artistic vocation, joining experimental acting companies, for which he acts until the age of seventeen. At the same time, he develops a passion for poetry and at sixteen Cortina publishes his collection of poems named Casbah. His first contact with photography takes place in the 1970s. From that moment on, a long period of apprenticeship begins, during which he shoots pictures at weddings, makes portraits, small still-lives and occasional kids’ fashion photo sessions, while an important opportunity is offered him in 1975-76, when he starts working for the auction house Christie’s. The turning point takes place in 1981 when he meets Carla Ghiglieri who becomes his agent and introduces him to the world of fashion. Following the appearance of his first still-lives on the magazineAnnabella, in 1982, he starts collaborating with Vogue Italia and then, thanks to the encounter with Flavio Lucchini, director of Edimoda, and Gisella Borioli, with the magazines Mondo Uomo andDonna. From this moment on, his professional activity becomes more intense and he starts collaborating with the most prestigious fashion magazines both in Italy and abroad, most of all in Paris. During these years of intense professional commitment he elaborates his unique style, characterized by a poetic irony, while his passion for art leads him to introduce in his pictures the taste for a well-balanced composition. His references are, for his still-lives, Pop Art, which he could see on display at Rotonda della Besana since the early 1970s, and the photographic works of Irving Penn. Taking his inspiration also from the study of Renaissance Art, Gastel constantly goes back to an ideal of elegance he has been in contact with since his early youth, mostly thanks to his mother. Around the mid-1980s, he founds Gastel&Associati with Angelo Annibalini and Uberto Frigerio, with which he intends to promote the introduction into the professional world of young photographers, either grown in his studio, or met during his many workshops. His active commitment in the world of photography brings him closer also to the Associazione Fotografi Italiani Professionisti, of which he was President from 1996 to 1998. Since then he has been its Honorary President. The artistic consecration takes place in 1997, when the Triennale di Milano dedicates him a personal exhibition, curated by the contemporary art historian Germano Celant, in which about 200 pictures, evidence of his long and prolific career, are exhibited. Gastel utilizes the “old mix” techniques, the junction ones, pictorial rielaborations, decouplings and stratifications, up to the digital touch-up. His professional success consolidates in the following decade, up to the point in which his name appears on specialized magazines together with those of Italian photographers such as Oliviero Toscani, Giampaolo Barbieri, Ferdinando Scianna, or next to those of Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Jurgen Teller. In 2002, within the La Kore Oscar della Moda event, he was awarded the Oscar for photography. Honorary President of the Associazione Fotografi Italiani Professionisti and permanent member of the Polaroid Museum of Chicago, he carries out his working activity in his Via Tortona studio in Milan, where he continues developing his passion for poetry – his last collection is entitled Cinquanta – and photographic research outside the patterns of fashion. giovannigastel.it
April 1, 20187 yr Krizia Maglia 1988 (Advertisement) Model: Jeny Howorth Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia January 1988)
April 1, 20187 yr Krizia Fall/Winter 88.89 (Advertisements) Model: Jeny Howorth Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1988)
April 1, 20187 yr Trussardi Action Fall/Winter 88.89 (Advertisements) Models: Unknowns Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1988)
April 1, 20187 yr Trussardi Fall/Winter 88.89 (Advertisements) Model: Estelle Lefebure Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1988)
April 1, 20187 yr Trussardi Spring/Summer 1987 (Advertisement) Model: Cecilia Chancellor Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia February 1st, 1987)
April 1, 20187 yr Trussardi Fall/Winter 89.90 (Advertisement) Models: Kirsten Owen & Unknown Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia December 1989)
April 7, 20187 yr Author ELLE ITALIA, FEBRUARY 1998''Noir''Photographer: Giovanni GastelModel: Margherita SuppiniStyling: Micaela SessaMakeup: Alessandra Casoni/FreelancerHair: Maurizio Kulpherk/Gianni Di Muro Scanned by Rosie Nikolaeva
June 12, 20186 yr Trussardi Action Fall/Winter 89.90 (Advertisements) Models: Unknowns Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1989)
June 12, 20186 yr Krizia Fall/Winter 89.90 (Advertisement) Model: Unknown Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1989)
June 12, 20186 yr Sergio Rossi Fall/Winter 89.90 (Advertisement) Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1989)
June 12, 20186 yr On 3/31/2018 at 7:56 PM, Vogue Girl said: Trussardi Fall/Winter 89.90 (Advertisement) Models: Kirsten Owen & Unknown Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia October 1989)
July 26, 20186 yr Trussardi Spring/Summer 1985 (Advertisements) Models: Gail Elliott & Unknowns Photographer: Giovanni Gastel archivio.vogue.it (Vogue Italia March 1985)
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