1st Edition Art Book, "Mario Giacomelli", by Alistair Crawford, Photology

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Offered is a 1st edition large art book, "Mario Giacomelli", with text by Alistair Crawford and Photology. From the publisher..."This … Read more Offered is a 1st edition large art book, "Mario Giacomelli", with text by Alistair Crawford and Photology. From the publisher..."This is the most comprehensive survey of Giacomelli's work ever published. Arranged in themes, each section is a testament to his highly personal, striking and artistically atmospheric visual style, demonstrating his life-long preoccupation with landscapes (emphasizing their linear and abstract patterns), rural townscapes, street scenes, still lifes, and portraits of everyday Italian life. With over 600 beautiful and poetic duotone photographs this extraordinary and inspiring collection displays a profound understanding of the photographer's country and its people, and a mastery of form and effect that make his photographs imaginative works of art in their own right."
Publisher: ‎ Phaidon Press
Publication date: ‎ Sept. 13 2001
Print length ‏ : ‎ 428 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714841595
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714841595
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 6.5 lbs
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.25" x 1.75" x 11.75"

From the Publisher:
With the recent death of Mario Giacomelli (19252000), Europe has lost one of its most talented photographers. Giacomelli trained initially as a typographer and this early interest in graphic effect became a central part of his later photographic work. Winner of numerous medals and prizes, he achieved international status with exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan.

About the artist : Born into poverty and largely self-taught, Mario Giacomelli became one of Italy’s leading photographers. After purchasing his first camera in 1953, he began creating humanistic portrayals of people in their natural environments and dramatic abstractions of the landscapes. He continued to photograph in his hometown of Senigallia, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, for almost fifty years. Rendered in high-contrast black and white, his photographs are often gritty and raw, but always intensely personal. See less