Mario Giacomelli - Figure/Ground

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20th century
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Adriatic Sea
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black and white photography
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Dan Greenberg
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everyday life
exhibition
existence
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Getty Museum
Giuseppe Cavalli
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Italy
Katiuscia Biondi
La Gente
land
landscapes
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Marche
memory
Minor White
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Paolo Monti
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Sassaferatto
Scanno
seascapes
Senigallia
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Stephen Brigiidi
Susan Steinhauser
The Man of New Photography
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Under the Skin of Reality
William Garnett
World War II
WWII

Product details

  • ISBN 9781606067185
  • Publication Date: 25 May 2021
  • Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) was born into poverty and lived his entire life in Senigallia, a seaside town along the Adriatic coast in Italy's Marche region. He purchased his first camera in 1953 and quickly gained recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images. His preference for grainy, high-contrast film and paper produced bold, geometric compositions with glowing whites and deep blacks. Giacomelli most frequently focused his camera on the people, landscapes, and seascapes of the Marche, and he often spent several years expanding and reinterpreting a single body of work or repurposing an image made for one series for inclusion in another. By applying titles derived from poetry and literature to his photographs, he transformed ordinary subjects into meditations on time, memory, and existence. Spanning the photographer's earliest pictures to those made in the final years of his life, this publication celebrates the J. Paul Getty Museum's extensive Giacomelli holdings, formed in large part through a significant gift from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser.
Virginia Heckert is curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the author of several books, including Light, Paper, Process (Getty, 2015) and Ed Ruscha and "Some Los Angeles Apartments" (Getty, 2013).