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Giorgio Avigdor (1932 - 2019) was an artist, born in 1932 in Turin. In his life he lived and worked in New York. Read the full biography

Giorgio Avigdor (1932 - 2019) was an artist, born in 1932 in Turin. In his life he lived and worked in New York. After a stay in Paris where he studied music, scenography and dance; he returns to Turin where he is a student at the Polytechnic with Carlo Mollino. Avigdor thus began to dedicate himself to photography in the mid-1950s. With his shots, published in various newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad, Avigdor documented the urban environment through its architecture and its inhabitants, unconsciously captured in their everyday activities. Among his emblematic exhibitions are: “Entrate a Torino” (1973-1974) in which he presented the photographic series of the same name, the large project on the suburbs and the industrialization of the Piedmontese capital and in 1978 his participation in the Venice Biennale in the collective “Dalla parte dei photographers” with the series Viaggio sul Po from Goro to Gorino. A scholar of the subject, he also dedicated himself to teaching at the Albertina Academy and to historical research: he curated the exhibition "Photographers of Piedmont" (1977), produced by the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna of Turin and which brought attention to generations of photographers active in the second half of the nineteenth century; in 1981 he published the monograph “Mario Gabinio Fotografo”. Until the early seventies Avigdor also dealt with fashion photography, in which he showed special attention to aspects of the daily reality of the female world. In his photographic projects, the general characteristic of Avigdor's visible approach is an image not designed in anticipation but which is generated through the spontaneous attitudes of the subject, the use of existing light and the serial approach. In 2008 he participated in the exhibition “Italics” at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.