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Object Details

Title:

Untitled

Artist/Maker:

Mario Giacomelli (Italian, 1925 - 2000)

Culture:

Italian

Place:

Senigallia, Marche, Italy (Place Created)

Date:

negative 1968; print 1981

Medium:

Gelatin silver print

Object Number:

2016.179.6.16

Dimensions:

40.3 × 30.1 cm (15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

Copyright:

© Estate of Mario Giacomelli

Credit Line:

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

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Object Description

Elevated view of a group of young priests in dark cassocks playing in the snow. The men hold hands and circle around one of their companions, who spins in the center with his arms held out.

Bibliography
Bibliography

Alinder, James, ed. Mario Giacomelli. (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1983), p. 37.

Crawford, Alistair. Mario Giacomelli. (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001), p. 223, fig. 1.

Mauro, Alessandra. Mario Giacomelli: La matière de l'homme, exh. cat. (Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2010), p. 47.