Gian paolo barbieri biography examples

Italian fashion photographer (1935–2024)

Gian Paolo Barbieri or Giampaolo Barbieri (1935 – 17 December 2024) was an Italian fashion photographer.^[1][2]

Life and career

Born on the Via Mazzini in Milan, Barbieri's family were fabric wholesalers, and his father owned a department store.^[3] He performed in amateur dramatics in the mid-1950s, forming "The Trio", a performance troupe with his friends.

Barbieri also had a non-speaking role in Luchino Visconti's film Medea.^[3] He was influenced by cinema at an early age and photographed models in 1960s Rome, part of the social scene that was portrayed in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita.^[1]

A self-taught photographer, his first professional work was an apprenticeship to the Harper's Bazaar photographer Tom Kublin, who died twenty days later.^[1] In 1963 Barbieri had some images published in the Italian fashion magazine Novità, whic