Gianfranco Gorgoni

Gianfranco Gorgoni (24 December 1941 – 11 September 2019) was an Italian photographer who documented land art and installation art. His work was exhibited in a survey show, Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs, at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021.

Early life Gorgoni was born in Rome to Italian actress . He became an orphan at the age of 12. Then he grew up in Bomba, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain, Joseph Beuys and Truman Capote. For one book, he collaborated with Fidel Castro.

Publications The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies (1972)

Collections Gorgoni's work is held in the following permanent collections: Nevada Museum of Art Getty Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Smithsonian American Art Museum