[nggallery id=34 template=galleryview]Of all the Italian authors, Gianni Berengo Gardin (born Liguria 1930) is the best known outside of Italy and is considered an icon of Italian photography. For more than forty years, his camera captured very significant moments in the everyday life and environment of Italians, showing both their most popular side and their most unfamiliar face. Berengo Gardin has documented the changes, hopes, material life and contradictions of our time from the 50´s to the present day with warmth, intelligence, curiosity and a journalistic approach.