Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) - Storie di terra

Mario Giacomelli
Storie di Terra, Marche, ca. 1970
Silver gelatin print
Extraordinary aerial view belonging to the famous series Storie di Terra, one of the most iconic cycles in Mario Giacomelli's photographic research. In these images the agricultural landscape of the Marche is transformed into a powerful graphic structure: the furrows of the fields, traced by human labor, become luminous signs that cross the surface of the image like a script.
The photograph reveals Giacomelli's unique ability to transfigure the real landscape into an almost abstract composition, where earth, light, and movement generate a vision of great poetic and formal intensity.
On the back: Archivio Mario Giacomelli stamp, indication of the series Storie di Terra, autograph signature of the author and copyright stamps of the Senigallia studio.