Mario Giacomelli. L'evocazione dell'ombra

Mario Giacomelli (Senigallia 1925-2000) - hailed as a genius of photography in Italy and throughout the world - is the focus of this affectionate, impassioned essay by Sandro Genovali, a shrewd critic of literature and visual art, who has followed the great
photographer with a profound feeling of friendship and keen theoretical interest. Rejecting a long-standing - historical - condition that sees photography as subordinate to its fellow arts and recognizing the reality of its absolute equality with literature, painting, music and film, the author paints a portrait of the great photographer with the help of 32 extraordinary pictures that span his history. Applying a microscopic analysis to the connections between his major thematic nodes - mother, water, earth, house - and their overwhelming realization in pictures, Genovali tells the story of Giacomelli's most famous photographs, including his final projects, and recreates the viewpoint of a poet who, finding himself beside a stage of shadows, seems to prefigure a never-ending return to life.