The Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–2025) has been the sole contributor or a major contributor to a large number of photobooks from 1960 to the present.

Berengo Gardin's photobooks have included those for Touring Club Italiano (TCI) about regions within and outside Italy; multiple, TCI-unrelated books about particular parts of Italy, some of them lesser known (e.g. Polesine); books about particular artists (e.g. Giorgio Morandi); books about architecture (particularly that by Renzo Piano); and other commissioned publications (particularly for Istituto geografico De Agostini and Olivetti).

A large book published in 2013, Gianni Berengo Gardin. Il libro dei libri (Gianni Berengo Gardin: The book of books), introduces books with contributions by Berengo Gardin, presenting their covers and sample page spreads, and providing brief bibliographical information.

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In the citation for Berengo Gardin's honorary doctorate (2009), the University of Milan singled out the books Morire di classe (1969, with Carla Cerati); Dentro le case (1977); Dentro il lavoro (1978); Un paese vent'anni dopo (1973, with Cesare Zavattini); In treno attraverso l'Italia (1991, with Ferdinando Scianna and Roberto Koch); Italiani (1999); and Reportage in Sardegna (2006)."Berengo Gardin e Vitta Zelman dottori ad honorem", University of Milan, 11 May 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

India dei villaggi (1981) won the Scanno prize; La disperata allegria (1994) won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award at Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles; and Zingari a Palermo (1997) won the Oscar Goldoni prize.© Copyright Gianni Berengo Gardin. Rome: Peliti, 2001. .

Asked to pick the one book of his that he would like to be known two hundred years into the future, Berengo Gardin was unable to decide among Italiani; a book on rice cultivation;This could be Terre di risaia (Rome: Peliti, 2001; ), but is more likely to be the larger Il racconto del riso = An Italian Story of Rice (Rome: Contrasto, 2013; ). and Morire di classe.Gianni Berengo Gardin, interviewed by Floriana Pagano, "The books", pp. 421–431 within Gianni Berengo Gardin (Rome: Contrasto, 2005; ).

Books by or with contributions by Berengo Gardin

1960s On the Ferrarese architect Biagio Rossetti; photography by Berengo Gardin; text by Bruno Zevi; 728 pages.Under the title "... ancora libri", briefly introduced in Bruno Carbone, ed. Gianni Berengo Gardin. Il libro dei libri. Rome: Contrasto Due, 2013. .Although the OCLC record does not mention Berengo Gardin, there is other evidence for his contribution. On the houses on the Grand Canal in Venice; photography by Berengo Gardin, text by Giorgia Scattolin; 60 pages. Agenda. Venezia 1962. Ente Turismo Venezia. A diary with photography by Berengo Gardin; 110 pages. Photography by Berengo Gardin; 68 pages. Photographers include Berengo Gardin, who contributes 1 colour and 18 B/W photographs; introduction by Sergio Bettini; 272 pages. About Venice and its lagoon.Under the title "libri collectivi", briefly introduced in Bruno Carbone, ed. Gianni Berengo Gardin. Il libro dei libri. Rome: Contrasto Due, 2013. . Text by Guido Perocco; 55 pages. Photographers include Berengo Gardin, who contributes 2 colour and 18 B/W photographs; text by Giuliano Manzutto; edited by Alessandro Cruciani; introduction by Giovanni Comisso; 256 pages. About the Veneto. Venise des saisons = Venedig: Stadt auf 118 Inseln Texts by Giorgio Bassani and Mario Soldati; 112 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; 194 pages. Ten thousand + 30 copies printed.Introduced in Bruno Carbone, ed. Gianni Berengo Gardin. Il libro dei libri. Rome: Contrasto Due, 2013. . Berengo Gardin describes Una storia d'amore: Venezia (1981) Gli anni di Venezia (1994) and Venezia (2004) as new editions of this book. 194 pages. Translated from the Italian by Marianne and Josef Keller; 116 pages.Mentioned in Bruno Carbone, ed. Gianni Berengo Gardin. Il libro dei libri. Rome: Contrasto Due, 2013. . Toscana 159 B/W and 9 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; other contributions by Josip Ciganovich, Ezio Quiresi, et al.; introduction by ; 224 pages. About Tuscany.List (XLS file) of discards of Airuno library, Lombardy provincial website. Retrieved 21 March 2015. 159 B/W and 9 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; other contributions by Josip Ciganovich, Ezio Quiresi, et al.; introduction by ; 224 pages. About the region of Tuscany. In English, French and Italian; edited by ; 56 pages. About . About Sante Monachesi; photographs by Berengo Gardin and Fulvio Roiter, texts by Alfredo Anitori, Monachesi, et al.; 76 pages. About a building in Rome for the RAI. Photographs by Berengo Gardin, texts in Italian and English by Giuseppe Mazzariol, and Marziano Bernardi; 80 pages. Introduction by . Edited by Giuliano Manzutto and Alessandro Cruciani; 219 B/W and 8 color photographs by Berengo Gardin, additional photographs by Ezio Quiresi; 256 pages. About the region of Apulia.Record for Puglia at the OPAC of Braidense National Library. Retrieved 18 March 2015. Texts by and Giuliano Manzutto; 98 black and white photographs; 126 pages. About Tuscany. 10000+30 copies. French translation by Colette Gardaz. Not sold to the public. Trade edition. Text by Giuseppe Mazzariol; 114 pages. Edited by Emilio Bianchi and Alessandro Cruciani; introduction by Mario Praz; 89 B/W and 2 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; 256 pages. About Lazio.Record for Lazio at the OPAC of Braidense National Library. Retrieved 18 March 2015. Edited by Gian Vittorio Castelnovi, et al.; includes 36 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; 492 pages. About Liguria. (Not to be confused with the 1969 book Liguria.) Edited by Giuliano Manzutto; introduction by Michele Abbate and ; 193 B/W and 4 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; 240 pages. About Basilicata and Calabria. For the Touring Club Italiano. Edited by Emilio Bianchi; 129 B/W and 6 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; 256 pages. About Trentino–Alto Adige. Photographs by Berengo Gardin, text by Giuseppe Marchiori; 60 pages. About the Cadorin family of architects and artists. Text by Giuseppe Marchiori; 50 pages. Includes 42 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; text by Giovanni Arpino, Riccardo Bacchelli et al.; 498 pages. Published for Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. About Piedmont and the Aosta valley. 88 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; text by Mario Minardi and Ermanno Franchetto; 156 pages. About Canavese. Text by Franco Basaglia and , photographs by Carla Cerati and 59 by Berengo Gardin. The title means "To die because of your class: The condition of asylums". 10,313 copies published; 8092 copies sold. (See also Morire di classe.) 3958 copies published; 2575 copies sold.Although Foot says that "Morire di Classe only went through two editions, and was out of print by the early 1980s" and provides the print run for a 1974 edition, he mentions no difference between the two editions (suggesting that they are what are more commonly called printings or impressions), and various WorldCat entries suggest at least one additional "edition" (printing) in the late 1970s.See also Per non dimenticare: 1968. La realtà manicomiale di "Morire di classe" (1998). "'Morire di Classe' ristampa anastatica a cura di Duemilauno Agenzia Sociale " (PDF), news-forumsalutementale.it."'Morire di Classe' ristampa anastatica a cura di Duemilauno Agenzia Sociale ", news-forumsalutementale.it, 1 October 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2015. Issue 16 of the journal Sconfinamenti. This is the same as the first edition, with the addition of texts by the sociologist of politics Maria Grazia Giannichedda and the journalist and photographer Claudio Ernè, as well as an editorial note; its publisher makes it available as a PDF file.The PDF may be found here (Editore Duemilauno Agenzia Sociale).See also Manicomi: psichiatria e antipsichiatria nelle immagini degli anni Settanta (2015). Catalogue of an exhibition held by Berengo Gardin, and Toni Nicolini held at the gallery "Il Diaframma" in Milan in November 1968; 32 pages; with 11 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin. About the Olivetti plant in Pozzuoli, with 20 photographs by Berengo Gardin and other photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson; 34 pages. About Umbria; primary photographer Paolo Monti, but also with 60 B/W and 2 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin, and an introduction by ; 256 pages. Includes 22 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; introduction by Carlo Bo; 272 pages. About Liguria. (Not to be confused with the 1967 book Liguria.)

1970s Album no. 12. Edited by Bill Jay. London: Album, 1970. . Much of issue 12 of the photography magazine Album is devoted to Berengo Gardin, Édouard Boubat and Elliott Erwitt. Berengo Gardin has 13 B/W photographs.A PDF of this issue of Album is available here within Bill Jay's website as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 July 2011. Photography by Berengo Gardin (35 B/W photographs), Mario Mulas and Fulvio Roiter; text . Text in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish; 205 pages. About Ivrea. 160 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; text by Giuseppe Marchiori, Guido Perocco, and Sandro Zanotto; 208 pages. About Venice. 113 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin, text by Cesare Colombo; 152 pages. Berengo Gardin describes this as the first anthology of a variety of his work. 204 B/W and 3 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; edited by Giuliano Manzutto; introduction by ; 256 pages. About Sardinia. 57 B/W and 1 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin, other contributions by Pepi Merisio, Paolo Monti, and others; introduction by Ettore Paratore; 256 pages. About Abruzzo and Molise. 246 B/W and 2 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; other photographs by Elio Ciol and others; introduction by Biagio Marin; edited by Emilio Bianchi and Giuliano Manzutto; 256 pages. About Friuli-Venezia Giulia. 263 B/W and 12 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin, text by Giuseppe Marchiori, with an essay by Sandro Zanotto; 54 pages. About Polesine. Some of the material here was reworked into a different book of the same title, published in 2008 (see below). 68 B/W and 3 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; other photographs by Paolo Monti and others; introduction by Paolo Volpone; 256 pages. About the Marche. 160 photographs by Berengo Gardin, other photographs by Pepi Merisio, Paolo Monti, et al.; essays by Cesare Brandi and Franco Mancuso. On the piazze of Italy; 192 pages. Photography by Berengo Gardin, text by Cesare Rodi, edited by Ente Provinciale Turismo (Como); 30 pages. About Lake Como. Edited by Giuliano Manzutto and Emilio Bianchi; introduction by Carlo Bo; 240 pages. About Milan. 211 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin, commentary by Giovanni Arpino; 227 pages. About the farmhouses of Europe. 227 pages.

90 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin, essay by Giuseppe Zander, introduction by Giovanni Fallani; 192 pages. About abbeys and convents. Text by Giovanni Arpino, 270 B/W and 16 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin; 290 pages. About Spain. In Dutch and French. Photography by Berengo Gardin and texts by Antonio Amaduzzi and Cesare Zavattini; 150 pages. Photography by Berengo Gardin and texts by Antonio Amaduzzi and Cesare Zavattini; 150 pages. Text by Enzo Bettiza, 46 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; color photography by Novosti Press Agency; 64 pages. About Moscow. 110 B/W and 22 colour photographs by Berengo Gardin, texts by Diego Valeri, etchings by Michele Marieschi; 116 pages. About Venice. Edition of 3500, not sold to the public. Introduction by Italo Calvino, essay by Antonio Cassi Ramelli, edited by Aurelio Natali, 179 B/W photographs by Berengo Gardin; 224 pages. Photography by Berengo Gardin and texts by Giuseppe Marchiori; 96 pages. On the wood sculpture of the Vallazza family.