TAMAGNI, Daniele

About Italian photographer, Daniele TAMAGNI (1975-2017)

After the PhD in Arts Studies at Cattolica University in Milan, Daniele TAMAGNI discovered his passion for photography in his first trip to Cuba in 2004. After that trip he enrolled at Westminster University in the Photography faculty for 2 years. In 2007 he received the Canon Young Photographer Award for the series of Congolese dandys, 'Sapeurs of Brazzaville'. In 2009 he published 'Gentlemen of Bacongo'. In 2010 he received the ICP INFINITY AWARD in the fashion category. In the same year he travelled to Bolivia in the Andean village of Kami for TERNA energy company assignment and in La Paz for a project of women wrestlers ('Cholitas Luchadores'), winning the World Press Photo in Arts & Entertainment category in 2011. Between 2011 and 2013 he explored other streetstyle trends and aesthetic of transformation in different contexts (South Africa, Senegal, Cuba, Burma, Botsawana). The best images of his projects were published in a book 'Global Style Battles'. In 2014 he started his fight with leukemia. Daniele TAMAGNI died in 2017.

Photo books by as well as with works by Daniele TAMAGNI

  • 'Gentlemen of Bacongo' (2009, 2016); 'Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style' (2015); 'Style is Life' (2024)

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TAMAGNI, Daniele - Gentlemen of Bacongo
TAMAGNI, Daniele - Gentlemen of Bacongo
1st print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 20,5, x 2,5 cm., 224 pp., color ills., text language: English
178,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
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TAMAGNI, Daniele - Style is Life
TAMAGNI, Daniele - Style is Life
'Style is Life' brings together famous and previously unpublished images by Daniele TAMAGNI of Congolese Sapeurs, Botswana's Afrometals, Bolivian wrestlers & young dance groups from Johannesburg. They recall the subversive & political value of fashion.
58,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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TAMAGNI, Daniele - Fashion Tribes. Global Street Style
TAMAGNI, Daniele - Fashion Tribes. Global Street Style
Out-of-print 'Fashion Tribes. Global Street Style' by Daniele TAMAGNI presents subcultures from Africa, America & Asia. Experts shed light on all facets of style. A comprehensive overview of the world of clothing, showsing the power that clothing can have
98,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
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Exhibitions
  • Exibitions with his pictures have been held every year since 2010 in Europe and US in private Galleries and Museums (such as LACMA in Los Angeles, Moma in NY, Vitra in Germany, MOCP in Chicago, Brighton Royal Pavillion, MART Rovereto Italy, Museo de citade Lisboa, Carrousel du Louvre Paris, Lentos Kunst Museum Austria, Prins Claus Amsterdam, etc).
    2024: 'Daniele Tamagni. Style Is Life', Palazzo Morando, Milan (09.02.–01.04.2024);
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