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2 unusual facts about Mario Giacomelli


Rena Effendi

Effendi has won the Fifty Crows Documentary Award, the Mario Giacomelli Memorial Award and the Getty Images Editorial Grant.

Scanno Boy

Scanno Boy (1957) is the most successful photograph taken by the Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli.


Scanno, Abruzzo

Situated in the Sagittario Valley and encircled by the Majella mountains Scanno has been immortalised by photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson (1951) and Mario Giacomelli (1957-1959) and, according to Edward Lear, was host to Italy’s most beautiful women (Illustrated excursions in Italy by Lear, Edward, 1846).


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