Background
Mario Giacomelli was born on August 1, 1925 in Senigallia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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Evoking Shadows reveals surprising analogies between the photographer and Frederico Fellini, and explores, in a warm-hearted and engrossing essay, the stories of Giacomelli's most famous pictures.
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2002
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A new book, with a strong visual approach on Mario Giacomelli, the great Italian master, published with the participation of his niece Katiuscia Biondi Giacomelli.
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Mario Giacomelli was born on August 1, 1925 in Senigallia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Only nine when his father died, at 13, the boy left high school to work as a typesetter and spent his weekends painting and writing poetry.
After the horrors of World War II, from 1953 Mario Giacomelli turned to the more immediate medium of photography and joined the Misa Group, formed that year.
After pre-war years dominated by a Pictorialist aesthetic promoted by the Fascist government, these artists enjoyed experimenting with form. He wandered the streets and fields of post-war Italy, inspired by the gritty Neo-Realist films of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini, and influenced by the renowned Italian photographer Giuseppe Cavalli, founder of Misa, and developing a style characterized by radical compositions, bold cropping and stark contrasts.
In 1955 Mario Giacomelli was discovered in Italy by Paolo Monti, and beginning in 1963, became known in the outside Italy through John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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2002(A new book, with a strong visual approach on Mario Giacom...)
In about 1954 Mario Giacomelli belonged to the photographic group Misa with Cavalli, Vincenzo Balocchi, Ferriccio Ferroni, Pierogiorgi Branzi and others.