{"id":3297,"date":"2019-07-21T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/?page_id=3297"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T13:14:51","slug":"mario-giacomelli-giacomo-leopardi-silvanaeditoriale-marcoandreani-alessandrogiampaoli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/en\/mario-giacomelli-giacomo-leopardi-silvanaeditoriale-marcoandreani-alessandrogiampaoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Giacomelli. Giacomo Leopardi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marco Andreani and Alessandro Giampaoli edited this splendid book, which incorporates a rich selection of documents from the Mario Giacomelli Archive (proofs, print notes, unpublished test prints, letters etc.) to piece together the creation and development of the two photographic series Giacomelli made inspired by poems by Giacomo Leopardi: Infinity <\/i>and To Silvia. <\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The book reproduces the series in their entirety (presented in the order devised by Giacomelli), together with test prints, notes, and an unpublished reconstruction of To Silvia <\/i>from 1964, which Giacomelli created according to Luigi Crocenzi\u2019s screenplay. He overhauled this early version in 1988 (and disowned it, believing the illustration of the poem to be too literal).<\/span><\/p>\n

The book includes a detailed exploration of the relationship between photography and poetry at the heart of Giacomelli\u2019s practice. It traces the history of Italian photography in the 1960s and looks at the concept of the photo-story structure theorised by Crocenzi. <\/span><\/p>\n