BIOGRAPHY

Italian photographer born in 1925 in Senigallia and died in 2000.
Noticed very early on by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Giacomelli is a major photographer of the 20th century.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- 100 fotografie per ereditare il mondo, MUDEC, Milan, Italy
2025
- La Camera Oscura di Giacomelli, Senigallia, Italy
- Sonderausstellung photoSchweiz, Zurich, Switzerland
- Il fotografo e il poeta, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2023
- Noir & Blanc : Une esthétique de la photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France
2022
- Mario Giacomelli. Petits prêtres, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, France
2021
- Getty Center, Los Angeles, United States
2019
- Mario Giacomelli. Giacomo Leopardi, A Silvia, L’infinito, Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy
2018
- Hommage à Spoon River, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
- Ferendo e rimarginando passano i giorni. Mario Giacomelli sinestetico, Sinesthesia Festival, Mondolfo, Italy
2017
- Mario Giacomelli. Poetry of landscape, Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Moscow, Russia
2016
- Empreintes italiennes, Orangerie des Musées de Sens, France
- Je ne fais pas le photographe, je ne sais pas le faire, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
2015
- Photographie métaphysique. Mario Giacomelli, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Festival Photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France
2013
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2011
- Mario Giacomelli. Photographe et poète, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2010
- Les rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
2008
- MAMM Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
- Mario Giacomelli, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
- L’hermite de Senigallia, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2004
- Mario Giacomelli. Vintages, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2003
- Festival Europalia 2003, Mundaneum, Mons, France
2002
- Vintage Prints, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Poesia come realità, Museo del Santo, Padoue, Italy
- Mario Giacomelli. Photofusion, London, United Kingdom
2001
- Mario Giacomelli, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
- Mario Giacomelli, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
1996
- Mario Giacomelli. Fotografien, Museum Sankt Ingbert Albert Weisgerben Stiftung, Germany
1995
- Mario Giacomelli. Fotografie 1952-1955, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1992
- Mario Giacomelli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
- Mario Giacomelli, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1990
- Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
1989
- International Center of Photography, New-York, United States
- Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1988
- Museum of Fine Art, Houston, United States
- Le Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1987
- Mario Giacomelli. Über die Magie des Alltäglichen und Landschaftsbilder, Museum Kulturhaus, Graz, Austria
- Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1986
- Mario Giacomelli. Über die Magie des Alltäglichen und Landschaftsbilder, Foto galerie Wien, Vienna & Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria
- DLI Museum & Art Center, Aykely Heads, Durham Carmarthern Museum, Durham, United Kingdom
- Mario Giacomelli Lichtbilder, Ghetti Art Galerie, Berne, Switzerland
1985
- Galerie Municipale du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
1984
- Centre Niçois de Photographie Documentaire, Nice, France
- Mario Giacomelli. Fotographie 1955-1984, Centro Internazionale di Brera, Milan Camera International, Italy
- Musée Pouchkine, Moscow, Russia
- XV Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Salle Capitulaire, Arles, France
1983
- Mario Giacomelli. A retrospective 1955-1983, Traveling exhibition (United Kingdom & Ireland)
- Fourth Annual International Fine Art Photography, Aipad, New York, United States
1982
- Métamorphoses, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France
1978
- Fotografie di Mario Giacomelli, Accademia Americana, Rome, Italy
1977
- The Photographers’ Gallery, Londres, United Kingdom
1975
- The Land: 20th Century Landscape Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
1973
- Fotografie.Mario Giacomelli, International Culturel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
1972
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France
1964
- The Photographer’s Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New-York, United States
1960
- XII Triennale di Milano, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milan, Italy
1959
- Paesaggi e nature morte di Mario Giacomelli, Biblioteca Comunale, Milan, Italy




















