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Mario Giacomelli (1925 – 2000)
Untitled, Italian, July 1955
From the series »Metamorfosi della terra«
Item number 572-0212
Giacomelli photographed landscapes for many years, which are among his most sought-after images today. Initially he stood on a hill, as in this case, but from the 1970s onwards he photographed from an airplane. His photographs dissolve the fields into increasingly abstract, graphic networks of lines and show the landscape as one marked by man and time, reminiscent of his many portraits of old people. Later, Giacomelli did intervene in the design of the landscape and instructed the farmers to plough shapes into the ground according to his ideas. On the one hand an expression of personal feeling, the pictures also embody a clear, bold and conceptually pioneering attitude.
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Gelatin silver print, print date: vintage
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Image dimensions 28,6 x 38,9 cm (28,6 x 38,9 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Archival mat board 50 x 60 cm, frame on request
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Condition
Double weight, semi-matte baryta paper, in excellent condition -
Annotations
Photographer's stamp, handwritten annotated »Coll. Zannier« in pencil, »1955 Luglio« in ink, and various numbers on the reverse. -
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