Quick Facts
Biography
Giovanni Gastel (born 1955 in Milan) is an Italian photographer.
Career
Giovanni Gastel began to approach photography in the early 1970s.
In 1981 he started working for numerous fashion magazines, including: Vogue, Elle and Vanity Fair, also collaborating with world-famous brands such as Dior, Trussardi, Krizia, Tod's and Versace.
During these years of intense professional commitment, he began to develop his personal style, characterized by a poetic irony. His passion for art history led him to introduce a taste for balanced composition into photographs. His references are Pop Art and Irving Penn's photographic work.
From the early 1990s Gastel's professional success was consolidated, so much so that his name appeared in specialized photographic magazines together with that of photographers such as Oliviero Toscani, Giampaolo Barbieri, Ferdinando Scianna, or alongside that of Helmut Newton, Richard Avendon, Annie Lebowitz, Mario Testino and Jurgen Teller.
In 1997, the Milan Triennial dedicated the first personal exhibition to him, curated by Germano Celant.
