If you think of Gabriele Basilico's photography, it is impossible not to imagine empty cities of a silently destroyed civilisation. For instance, in Milano. Ritratti di fabbriche 1978/1980, an exemplar of Basilico's visual research, viewers can acutely experience what a deserted suburban street in Milan looks like during a hot summer day. This theme of uninhabited urban industrial space is a leitmotiv of his celebrated work. During his lifetime, Basilico's search for a photographic documentation of such experience had translated into images of empty physical spaces and abandoned factories. He gave the experience of being in such quintessentially urban conditions of abandonment and dereliction a new aesthetic value and constructed a visual poetry of magic suspension on the absence of human beings, such as that which he had captured in the empty Milanese suburbs in the early morning light. This paper unravels Basilico's choice to interpret virtually empty urbanscapes, and traces Giorgio Casali's influence on Basilico within the wider culture of Italian architectural photography.

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“沉默、光明和期待的情境”：加布里埃莱·巴西利科作品中的影响和主题

如果您想到 Gabriele Basilico 的摄影作品，您就无法不想象一个被默默摧毁的文明的空城。以米兰为例。Ritratti di fabbriche 1978/1980 是 Basilico 视觉研究的典范，观众可以敏锐地体验米兰荒凉的郊区街道在炎热夏日的样子。无人居住的城市工业空间的主题是他著名作品的主旨。在他的一生中，巴西利科对这种经历的摄影记录的探索已经转化为空荡荡的物理空间和废弃工厂的图像。他赋予了在这种典型的城市遗弃和荒废环境中的体验一种新的审美价值，并在人的缺席上构建了一种神奇悬浮的视觉诗歌，比如他在清晨的阳光下在空旷的米兰郊区捕捉到的东西。这篇论文揭示了 Basilico 选择解释几乎空旷的城市景观，并追溯 Giorgio Casali 在更广泛的意大利建筑摄影文化中对 Basilico 的影响。