The presence of space with its human component, the presence of places, was a pillar in the work of Giovanni Chiaramonte, and Domus was one of the places where such vision could best be expressed over the decades. The great photographer, from a Sicilian family, who died at the age of 75 on the day the ADI Design Museum in Milan was inaugurating his last curatorial work – the exhibition Fotografia alla carriera. Omaggio della fotografia italiana ai maestri del Compasso d'Oro – had developed his research in the different articulations of intellectual expression, practice, teaching, curating, criticism and essay writing. A leading name on the Italian and international scene, as a conceptual artist and as a photographer, he had founded a publishing house – the Punto e Virgola – and directed numerous editorial series, his exhibitions and travel experiences are difficult to count while around 100 is the number of reports he had done for the most important architecture magazines. For Domus he had photographed projects since the early 1990s, many in the Sicilian land – iconic his interpretation of Alvaro Siza in Salemi – and we want to remember him through the pages of our magazine into which his look had translated.
Farewell to Giovanni Chiaramonte (1948-2023)
The look of the great photographer, who left us aged 75, always sought life and history within the nature of places, as in the architecture he portrayed over the years for Domus, through which we want to remember his internationally acclaimed figure.
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