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Quote by Mario Giacomelli

“Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.”

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Mario Giacomelli was an Italian photographer born on August 1, 1925, and passed away on November 25, 2000. His photography is renowned for its unique perspective and masterful use of light and shadow. more

“When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.”

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“If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.”

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“It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.”

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“I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.”

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“One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”

“Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.”

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“To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.”

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