A great one photographer, poet, artist, but above all a gentleman and a kind soul. With the specific comments the world of Italian fashionable says goodbye to photographer Giovanni Gastel, who died on Saturday at the age of 65 due to complications related to COVID-19, reports APE.
“There is a kind of pain that words cannot describe. A pain that our minds cannot comprehend because it comes so suddenly and unexpectedly. “A pain that makes you feel lost,” said Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace.
“Giovanni was able to see the beauty in all the things around him and I will always keep the moments we shared and the memories with him. I will always remember that he was behind the lens of his favorite camera creating famous portraits and art. “His generosity was limitless and the goodness of his soul cannot be measured,” he stressed.
Gastel was born into an aristocratic family – his mother was Inda Visconti di Montrone, sister of the legendary director Lucino Visconti. In 1975 he started working as a photographer for a British auction house and in 1981, he entered the world of fashion photography thanks to a meeting with Carla Gillieri, who became his manager.
He collaborated with the magazines Anabella, Vogue Italia, Mondo Uomo, Donna, Vanity Fair, Amica etc.
Inspired by the American photographer Irving Penn from the beginning of his career, he pursued an ideal of classic beauty and elegance in his images.
His career took off during the heyday of Made in Italy and the rise of the Italian brands Versace, Missoni, Krizia, Gianfranco Ferrè and Salvatore Ferragamo.
Models, actors, artists, industry professionals, VIPs, singers, musicians, politicians, journalists, designers, chefs posed for his camera.
“I met Giovanni Gastel in 1987 and since then we have always worked together,” said Vanity Fair Italia director Cristina Lucini. “L’Uomo Vogue, Vogue Gioiello, Vogue Pelle, Vanity Fair, Amica, Glamor… a life of photography, travel, dinners, laughter and discussions about the meaning of it all. He taught me to look for beauty always, everywhere and in any way. He was irresistibly attracted to beauty, as if it were a drug. “Together we did thousands of fashion photos, still lifes, covers and portraits,” he added.
From 2000 onwards, Gastel, who also wrote poetry, devoted himself more to portraits and created more than 200 celebrities such as former US President Barack Obama, Italian architect Ettore Sotsas and Italian dancer Roberto Bole.
The portraits were collected for an exhibition dedicated to his work at the MAXXI Museum in Rome last year.
In 2016 he published his autobiography entitled “An eternal instant. My life “which he wrote within a month, at his home in Filikundi of the Aeolian Islands.
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