Comments on: Gigi Giannuzzi – Goodbye… https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: chris shaw https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-119437 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:41:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-119437 sad to hear gigi`s gone-but has he really gone?his books live on!had many laughs with him and remember his first trolley office and using the toilet there!he- a sparkling spirit he burned the candle at both ends -said i was unpublishable-loved him more!great guy.

]]>
By: eduardo sepulveda https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118847 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:03:44 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118847 is not new if somebody says that business mentality ‘ruins’ most of things… not only in photography…
…and that sometimes can be confused with organization, which can be in fact very important, but not necessarily the same thing.

…and that like love or life most of the best things don’t have anything to do with gain or loss… that’s pure reality, not idealism.

grazie mille Gigi!

]]>
By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118799 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:21:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118799 “No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.”

GIGI…we are sending love to you and to all our friends and family Upstairs…!!!

]]>
By: robert blu, quiet photographer https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118753 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:57:05 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118753 It s always sad when you loose a friend…my condolence…I did not know GiGi but from what I read he was special…it’s a sad news…
robert

]]>
By: Wellyreed https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118750 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:31:04 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118750 David: Life is weird, and rewarding. Today I was sending my wife’s son a subscription to National Geographic and I decided to search for a young photographer (30) who had just made the cover of Nat Geo with his photos of the Chesapeake Bay…It was 1974 in Richmond, and I had just started an ad agency. You used your obvious talent to shoot children and families for a brochure for a planned community, Salisbury. Your work helped me keep the client, and get others over the past almost 40 years. It was exciting to see the other assignments you excelled at over the many years.And to share your world travels.
I look forward now to keeping up through Burn.

Perhaps, my wife’s son, a budding photographer in Phoenix, can qualify for a 2013 workshop. We think he is a budding talent: http://dudakphoto.gallerama.com/gallery/2095

(So sorry to read about Gigi. Cancer is horrible. It took my son two years ago at 48)

]]>
By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118719 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:56:17 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118719 Thank you, Madame Villon, for sharing both the gain Gigi brought you and the pain his loss has cost you. To be honest, compared to many here at Burn I am a bit of a Philistine and I don’t come across too many Trolley books up here – I don’t think I have come across any – but I was introduced to Gigi’s work as a publisher during a visit to New York City maybe four years ago when I heard all kinds of good words spoken about him. I was most impressed – enough that it genuinely shook me to open Burn today and see David’s tribute, which was how I learned. Thanks to your encouragement, I will purchase one of Gigi’s Trolley books by the new year and see where it might take me.

]]>
By: madame villon https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118697 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:09:09 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118697 Im sorry frostfrog that you never met him.gigi got the highest marks ever at the best economics university of italy the bocconi and was not surpassed making money was not his main aim when he got into trolley.he had an amazing court case over his books being burnt in germany with the judge using the german word for shit to discribe his books which he said was obviously one of the few words he understood in german.looking at the social photo journalisum books each hold a poginent key to how the world stands in the aquariuos age.they cover a fair share of the disparities within humanity and the head count of how many lifes if the book could change for the better are enormous i think thats where his emergency to publish came from always with the highest craftsmanship that he could get, never cutting quality.its extremely sad that istitutions liberies and foundations dont have the balls to give the public free acsess to these books.i feel humanity me included ends up being a headless chicken without him.one of his many devoted desiples he changed my life and i hope he changes yours too .please excuse my spelling

]]>
By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118685 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:24:25 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118685 Sad news… Sorry

]]>
By: Thomas Bregulla https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118679 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:08:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118679 thanks for the article from the archive. more people like him are need today.
my condolences, too. it is difficult to find the right words, especially if one dies so young.

]]>
By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118659 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:08:10 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118659 AMIGO:

yea, he had some really generous things to say about Bones…and his attention to detail and to get shit was such a gorgeous thing, but what I was struck by was his quiet but ferocious fucking love of photographers/photography….a rare beauty in a world filled by cynicism and too-cool-for-school folk…a big loss

take your time, always here …just get some of that cake back from the sea ;)))

]]>
By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118657 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:38:56 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118657 BOB

i believe you were there with Bones that night in Brooklyn…..look for a an email from me soonest

]]>
By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118656 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:24:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118656 a big, profound heartbreaking loss to the entire photo and photobook community…….

as eva said,

big grazie…..

]]>
By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118645 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:44:34 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118645 PAUL…FROSTFROG

Gigi was a maniac but he pushed the edges of book publishing and made sure some very important books got published that would not have otherwise….as i mentioned in the piece, the book publishing business is in general not a very good business….if you look carefully behind the scenes of the best from Trolley, or Aperture, or Phaidon or Steidl or any publisher whose book you admire , you will find the very best books were published by someone with heart and passion who was most likely not a “bottom line” type…the “brands” might later be attached to many books…but look at the great ones…always “a Gigi” behind them….

cheers, david

]]>
By: eva https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118644 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:42:40 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118644 Ciao Gigi.. Grazie!

]]>
By: Paul https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118639 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:59:35 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118639 I’m very sorry, my condolences for you David and all the Burn team who also knew Gigi.

]]>
By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2012/12/goodbye-gigi/#comment-118618 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:06:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=14164#comment-118618 My condolences for the personal loss of your friend. Sad news and a big loss also for photography. I never got to meet him, but my heart sunk several notches when I opened Burn and saw this article.

]]>