Friday, January 4, 2013

Obituary: Gigi Giannuzzi, Founder of Trolley Books, 49

© Sarah Shatz/www.sarahshatz.com Gigi Giannuzzi in the Trolley Books office in New York, around 2004, photographed by Sarah Shatz.

Gigi Giannuzzi, the founder of Trolley Books and publisher of innovative and award-winning photo books by Philip Jones Griffiths, Paolo Pellegrin, Alex Majoli, Stanley Greene, Carl De Keyzer, Nina Berman, Alixandra Fazzina, Thomas Dworzak, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin and others, died December 24 in London. Giannuzzi had announced in June that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 49, according to Hannah Watson, his longtime business partner in Trolley Books.

Since founding Trolley Books in 2001, Giannuzzi had championed photography that examined issues of social justice and blurred the line between documentary and art.

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