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Mario GiacomelliItalian Photographer · 1925–2000
All works by this person →Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) is widely recognized as one of the foremost Italian photographers of the twentieth century. Born into poverty, he lived his entire life in Senigallia, a town on the Adriatic coast, in the Marche region. After losing his father at age nine and completing elementary school at eleven, he apprenticed as a typesetter and printer, while also teaching himself to paint and wri
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- negative 1958; print before 1980
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 65de4fb7-8e43-40a6-ae4f-c381eebb0c15
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Senigallia’s people and places were recurring motifs in Giacomelli’s work. In addition to revealing his interest in the different communities of his hometown, these photographs of a Romani family and of children frolicking on the beach demonstrate his ability to combine humanist and expressive impulses. Giacomelli understood that graininess, movement, and high contrast could do more than simply provide a veneer of abstraction; they also heighten the emotive power of images. Virginia Heckert, J. Paul Getty Museum, Department of Photographs, 2021
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