Mario Giacomelli
, who died in
Senigallia on the 25th November 2000, is considered by a great many
critics as the greatest Italian photographer of the second half of
the last century. His works are kept in museums all over the
world.
He was born in Senigallia in 1925, and suffered the premature death
of his father at the age of nine, which affected the rest of his
childhood.
After a series of experiences with painting and poetry, he entered
the world of photography and two years later the local association
“Misa”.
In 1963 one of his photos, from a series called
Scanno
, was selected for the
Museum of
Modern Art in New York
, so rewarding the break away from
traditional forms which Giacomelli had started just after the
war.
Mario Giacomelli was a true local, tied to his region, town, and
its rhythms and traditions.
Even in his artistic expression he was influenced by his homeland.
We can see this in his landscapes showing signs of man’s labour,
with folds like wrinkles on a. person’s hands, landscapes that
speak of faces and things living in the soul.
For Giacomelli, photography was above all love, the image telling a
poem of the heart which continues to surprise and move us.
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