Questo ricordo lo vorrei raccontare

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Questo ricordo lo vorrei raccontare

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Mario Giacomelli

Italian Photographer · 1925–2000

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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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Date
2000
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
Italian
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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The poetic title of this series reflects the increasingly pensive mood of Giacomelli’s late work. We occasionally glimpse the photographer himself as he engages with an odd assortment of props, including stuffed dogs and birds, a mannequin and mask. His abrupt cropping, slight overexposure to reverse tonal values, and painting or scratching of areas on the negative introduce elements of the absurd or surreal as means to confront the inevitability of his mortality. The series, one of his last, is a meditation on melancholy, loss, and the passage of time. See other images from this series ([2016.179.12](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/297459/), [2016.179.17](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/297464/), [2016.179.19](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/297466/), [2019.179.20](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/297468/)). Virginia Heckert, J. Paul Getty Museum, Department of Photographs, 2021

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