MARIO GIACOMELLI

Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000 Senigallia) was an Italian photographer and photo-journalist. He 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.

His inimitable revolutionary photographic language was born in the 1950s, this way of shooting in Italy, where the neo realistic composition was considered the most polite,  was literally unsettling. It is a photograph full of life, Giacomelli loves "contradictions and smudges”. A photograph that is neither objective or subjective that clings, as never before, to the concreteness of the world, returned truer than reality.

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In 1960, he received a commission from the Catholic Church to record the lives of young priests in seminaries, and in 1978 he was featured in the Venice Biennale

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Selected past exhibitions:

M+ museum, Hong Kong, HK (2024)

Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA  (2021)

MAXXI, Roma, Italy (2021)

GAM,Torino, Italy (2020)

Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA (2015)

Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, Italy (2015) 

Centre Pompidou, Metz, France (2013) 

Museo della Fotografia, Seoul (2010)

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Selected public collections:

Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Istituto d'Arte di Chicago, USA

Museo di arte moderna di San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Tokyo Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

GAM, Turin, Italy