Giacomelli was a self-taught photographer, painter and poet. At the age
of 13, he 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, searching
for frames. He worked a lot with landscapes, mostly of Italy, using high
contrast so the landscapes looked like fabric draped over a structure.
The images he made weren't a direct representation of reality, it’s more
like he created poems with his photos. The images are timeless, the time and place doesn’t
matter. What matters is the poetic content of an image.Want to see more of Giacomelli?
http://www.mariogiacomelli.it/
Ho La Testa Piena Mamma
Paesaggi
Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto, 1962-1963
Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto, 1962-1963
