Gerald Bruneau Biography
Gerald Bruneau (1947 - ) Gerald Bruneau began his professional life in New York in the 1970s collaborating in Andy Warhol's factory, creating portraits and reportages in the United States. In the 1980s he moved to Italy where he began working as a freelancer for prestigious magazines. He had carried out social reports in Kurdistan, Israel, Palestine, Albania, Mexico and Chapas, on the death penalty in Texas and on drug addiction in New York. He also covered topics such as Blues in Mississippi, New artistic trends in New Mexico. In Italy he wrote essays on heretical scientists, new Neapolitan melodic musicians. His best-known portraits are Ciampi, Andreotti, Cossiga, Prodi, Dario Fo, Pavarotti, Zucchero, Shumacher, Totti, De Laurentis, Penelope Cruz. He worked for the Grazia Neri agency and is now one of the founders of the new online photo agency Blackarchives. His works have been published in the most important Italian and foreign magazines such as Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Le Figaro, Le Monde.