Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930) is a master of contemporary photography, mainly focusing on documentary photography, social investigations, architectural documentation and portraying the environment. His many awards include the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 1995 and the Lucie Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He has published over 250 books and held more than 360 solo exhibitions. Contrasto has published: Il libro dei libri (2014), a collection of all his books; Manicomi; Venezia e le Grandi Navi (2015); Vera fotografia (2016); and In festa (2017) for Dialogues on Man. All his pictures and archives are managed by the Milan-based Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia.