Ferruccio Ferroni (1920-2007) - Mediterranea

A great shot and a superb print by master Ferruccio Ferroni, in which the whites and the blacks, the lines and the shadows are magically balanced.
The title is "Mediterranea" and it is a 40 × 30 cm gelatin-silver print. Signed, titled, dated (specifying both the date of the shot and the date of the print) and stamped on the back.
The overall dimensions of the frame are 58 x 48 cm.

Ferruccio Ferroni is part of the famous 'triad' of photographers from Senigallia, alongside Giuseppe Cavalli and Mario Giacomelli.

Ferruccio Ferroni (Mercatello sul Metauro 1920 – Senigallia 2007), having refused to serve the Republic of Salò, was imprisoned in Germany from where he returned to undertake a long convalescence in Senigallia, where he met Giuseppe Cavalli in 1948, fully embracing his Crocean-inspired photography and later becoming his most faithful printer. From the profession of lawyer that he practiced all his life, he inherited the precision for photographic work both in the care of the archive and in the printing, which he always carried out personally. Throughout his life he thus alternated his activity as a lawyer with that of photography, a practice he embraced with the rigor, seriousness, and authority of a seasoned professional. Initially associated (from 1952) with the Venetian circle La Gondola (with Paolo Monti, Ferruccio Leiss, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Fulvio Roiter, etc.), he joined in 1954 the Gruppo Misa, yet, within the critical debate among the different aesthetic and theoretical positions of Paolo Monti and Giuseppe Cavalli, he assumed his own autonomy, always remaining coherent to a personal style characterized by a measured balance between high tones and strong contrasts that, dialectically, opposed the two masters.
His works — as Mario Giacomelli wrote — are poetic fragments, exquisitely composed formal images that contain the essential, the essence of an energy that carries with it the soul of things, lyrical expressiveness, emotional involvement….Time, space, light, and matter inhabit his images, vivified in the passage of form.