Mario Giacomelli

Italian | 1925 - 2000

Mario Giacomelli was an Italian photographer who was born in 1925. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). Numerous key galleries and museums such as Palazzo Esposizioni Roma have featured Mario Giacomelli's work in the past.Mario Giacomelli's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3 USD to 28,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 28,000 USD for Portfolio entitled "Le Gente [The People],", sold at Swann Auction Galleries in 2010. In the past 12 months, their photographs have averaged 1,952 USD.Mario Giacomelli has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Juliet Art Magazine in August 2025. The artist died in 2000.

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Ritrato di un sogno ,1990

By Mario Giacomelli

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Children dancing with burlap sacks ,1964

By Mario Giacomelli

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Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto [I have no hands to caress my face ,1961

By Mario Giacomelli

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Untitled from Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto (I have no hands that caress my face - Mario Giacomelli

Untitled from Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto (I have no hands that caress my face ,1958

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Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto (I do not have hands which caress my face) - Mario Giacomelli

Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto (I do not have hands which caress my face) ,1961

By Mario Giacomelli

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Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto [I have no hands to caress my face - Mario Giacomelli

Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto [I have no hands to caress my face ,1961

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Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto [I have no hands to caress my face ,1961

By Mario Giacomelli

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Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto [I have no hands to caress my face ,1961

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Presa di coscienza della natura - Mario Giacomelli

Presa di coscienza della natura ,1975

By Mario Giacomelli

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Sant鈥橝ngelo de Senigallia

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La Gente del Sud: Scanno 52 - Mario Giacomelli

La Gente del Sud: Scanno 52 ,1957

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Current Exhibitions

Mario Giacomelli: La Gente, La Terra

Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA)

Santa Barbara | California | USA

07 Sep, 2025 - 15 Feb, 2026

Una Galleria: Tante Collezioni

Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC)

Bergamo | Italy

10 Feb, 2024 - 11 Jan, 2026

Past Exhibitions

Popular Photography: Vintage Prints From The Collection Of Carol Carlisle

Keith de Lellis Gallery

New York | USA

01 May, 2025 - 13 Jun, 2025

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Articles

Mario Giacomelli and Simone Massi: A Hundred Years of Perspectives on the Marche Region

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鈥� ..Inspired by Neorealismo cinema, Giacomelli, a typesetter and printer by training who had been experimenting with painting and literature, turned to photography during the 1950s, developing a highly individual... 鈥�
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WestLicht Gallery

鈥� ..Starting with the people and landscape of his native central Italy, Giacomelli鈥檚 pictures always deal with the fundamental questions of existence: life and death, faith and love, the relationship of man... 鈥�
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WestLicht Gallery

鈥� ..Giacomelli鈥檚 images of the farm land around his native town of Senigallia, taken from an airplane, dissolve the fields into picturesque networks of lines, showing the landscape as a product of human toil... 鈥�
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WestLicht Gallery

鈥� .. 鈥楻ather than being interested merely in documenting what is taking place, I鈥檓 more interested in looking within what is taking place,鈥� Giacomelli said... 鈥�
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Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography

鈥� .. Mario Giacomelli鈥檚 way of life was in no way changed by success and fame... 鈥�
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Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography

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