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Mario Giacomelli (Senigallia, 1 August 1925 Senigallia, 25 November
2000) was an Italian photographer.
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, and influenced by the
renewed Italian photographer Giuseppe Cavalli, eventually
developing a style characterized by bold compositions and stark
contrasts.
One of Giacomelli's most iconic images, Scanno Boy (1957) consists
of a picture portraying a group of women walking towards the
observer with only one single and central object in focus: a boy
walking with his hands in his pockets. In 2013 the name of the boy
has been revealed by Simona Guerra: researcher and niece of Mario
Giacomelli as Claudio De Cola. On October 19, 1957, the day
Giacomelli took the photo, De Cola was emerging from the Church of
Sant'Antonio in Padua like many of the people around him, after the
Mass. De Cola, now in his sixties and no longer a resident of
Scanno, recognised himself in the picture. Further evidence was
provided by his mother Teopista, who produced several other
pictures of the boy.
Apart from Scanno, Giacomelli's most successful series are The
Landscapes (1954-2000) and I Pretini (Little Priests) (1961-1963),
a transcription of the everyday life of a group of young priests,
resulted from documenting Post-War Italian seminaries.
Giacomelli's work is present in many internationally acclaimed
museums permanent collection, including Castello di Rivoli in
Turin, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Art
Institute of Chicago.
Lorenzo was born in Senigallia, where he still lives.
In 1999 he achieved the Italian Canon Prize for the best
photographic portfolio. Since January 2000 he joined Contrasto.
Since 2006 some of his original prints have been included for sale
in the gallery of Forma Foundation for Photography, based in
Milan.
In 2007 the World Press Photo awarded him within the sport features
singles category with an image out of his Sports in China feature;
then he received the G.R.I.N. Amilcare Ponchielli award for his
work Fedeli alla Tribu (Loyal to the tribe).
He exhibited Viaggio intorno a casa at the the Palazzo del Duca, in
Senigallia. He exposed in three editions of Paris Photo, as well as
in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including the Venice
Biennale Marche Pavilion.
He made his debut as movie director in 2003 with the movie Prova a
Volare, starring then emerging actor Riccardo Scamarcio. In 2011 he
directed the movie Mi ricordo Mario Giacomelli with the
participation of the most important personalities of Italian
photography and art."
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