Ferruccio Ferroni (1920-2007) - "Segreti" (vintage anni '50)

Magnificent vintage shot from the 1950s by Ferruccio Ferroni titled “Segreti” (Secrets). A work of great depth and magical suspension. It is a gelatin-silver print measuring exactly 29.5 x 30 cm.

Ferruccio Ferroni is part of the famous “triad” of Senigallia photographers alongside Giuseppe Cavalli and Mario Giacomelli.

Ferruccio Ferroni (Mercatello sul Metauro, 1920 – Senigallia, 2007) having refused to serve the Republic of Salò, was interned in Germany from where he returned to undergo a long convalescence in Senigallia, where in 1948 he met Giuseppe Cavalli, wholly embracing his Crocean-photography cause and later becoming his most faithful printer. From the profession of lawyer he practiced all his life, he inherited the precision for photographic work both in archival care and in printing, which he always carried out personally. Throughout his life, therefore, he alternated his activity as a lawyer with photography, a practice he embraced with the rigor, seriousness, and authority of a seasoned professional. Initially he joined (in 1952) the Venetian Circolo della Gondola (with Paolo Monti, Ferruccio Leiss, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Fulvio Roiter, etc.), and in 1954 he joined Gruppo Misa, yet within the critical debate among the different aesthetic and theoretical positions of Paolo Monti and Giuseppe Cavalli he maintained his own autonomy, always consistent with a personal style characterized by a measured balance between high tones and strong contrasts that dialectically opposed the two masters.

His works — wrote Mario Giacomelli — are poetic fragments, exquisitely composed formal images that contain the essential, the core of an energy that carries with it the soul of things, lyrical expressiveness, emotional participation… Time, space, light, matter inhabit his images, vivified in the passage of form.