
Gabriele Basilico Beyrouth 1991 (2003)
- Publisher
- le Point de Jour
- Year
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9788860734297
- Specifications
- hardcover
Edited by Filippo Maggia and Gabriele Basilico
Texts by Francesco Bonami, Dominique Eddé and Gabriele Basilico
Translated by Ombretta Giumelli, Laura Molinari and Edwige Paulin
Graphic design by Mara Scanavino
pairs 1991 photographs (Fondation Hariri commission) with new 2003 images
French (simultaneous Italian/English co-edition, Baldini Castoldi Dalai)
A twelve-years-later companion to Basilico's original 1991 Beirut campaign, pairing his early images of Beyrouth Centre Ville, made for the Fondation Hariri as the civil war ended, with photographs taken in 2003, when he returned to some of the same streets for an editorial project with the magazine Domus. Read together, the two campaigns trace the reconstruction of downtown Beirut across more than a decade, from a devastated post-war centre to a rebuilt cityscape. The book includes texts by Francesco Bonami, Dominique Eddé and Basilico himself.