Mario Giacomelli

Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) was an Italian photographer born on 1 August 1925 in Senigallia, Italy. He died on 25 November 2000 in the town of his birth. Known for: Photographs of Italian seminaries and a poetic transcription of everyday life in Southern Italy. Bold, stylized compositions with stark contrast. Most Popular Image: "Scanno, 1957"; "Pretini" series (Little Priests) About: • Giacomelli was a self-taught photographer. • At 13, he left high school, began working as a typesetter and spent his weekends painting. After the horrors of World War II, he turned to the more immediate medium of photography. He wandered the streets and fields of post-war Italy, inspired by the gritty Neo-Realist films of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. • His mother worked at the nursing home where Giacomelli took many of his photographs of the elderly. • He met and was influenced by the noted Italian photographer,Giuseppe Cavalli. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) * "No image can be "reality" because reality it happens only once before my eyes". MARIO GIACOMELLI * Music: Eleni Karaindrou, Adagio

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