# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxtH0hIlAF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34228907-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/baa2661100.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-10-08T17:50:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Italy's Marche region is characterized by rolling hills, small farms, and frazioni (hamlets). These were among the first motifs Mario Giacomelli photographed. ⁠⁠
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The compositions of his early landscapes were fairly conventional, with foreground, middleground, and background elements organized around a clear horizon line. ⁠⁠
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As he refined his technique, Giacomelli often positioned himself at the top of a hill pointing his camera downward, or at the base aiming it upward. This eliminated the horizon and created a disorienting patchwork of shapes. ⁠⁠
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The photographs titled "Metamorphosis of the Land" were created over roughly 20 years in the countryside surrounding Senigallia. Without a horizon line to anchor them, they are disorienting. As viewers, we need to rely on a lone house or tree as a focal point.⁠⁠
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Giacomelli's development of the negative, use of high-contrast paper, and manipulations in the darkroom enhanced the graphic qualities of his images. It was not uncommon for him to scratch forms into his negatives to add dramatic counterpoints.⁠⁠
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View this photo and many others at the Getty Center exhibition "Mario Giacomelli: Figure/Ground" until this Sunday.⁠⁠
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🏷#GettyMuseum #GettyCenter #Photography #ItalianArt #Art #Analogue #Camera #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Horizons #LosAngeles #SoCal #Museums#ThingsToSee⁠⁠⁠

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