Old timers: The Italians - Hardcover

Marinelli, Mauro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312583648 ISBN 13: 9780312583644

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1979

Synopsis

In OLDTIMERS, Mauro Marinelli, a young and gifted photographer, has preserved for us a vital part of our heritage. Our parents and grandparents, part of the wave of millions of European immigrants who came to America at the turn of the century, will not be with us forever. many of the are no more than familiar stories repeated at family gatherings. These pictures, living documents of a disappearing past, recall the touch of a hand, the taste of homebaked bread, a pair of high-buttoned shoes, a heavily accented word. The people in the pictures are Italian, but they could be of any ethnic group. The photographer was inspired not only by his own heritage, but by the dramatic Indian portraits of Edward S. Curtis, who documented the last days of another generation of vanishing Americans. With a similar eloquence, but with an emotion born of his own memories, Mauro Marinelli offers a tribute to tradition, to the oldtimers who remain a fragile link with our past, whose portraits will inspire our memories in the future.

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Mauro Marinelli is an artist, photographer, contractor, great cook, one-time novitiate, and former photojournalist. Born and raised in White Plains, New York to Italian immigrant parents, he earned a BFA in in Photography and English from Manhattanville College in 1977. His work is inspired by the work of his teachers, Ralph Gibson, Eva Rubenstein and Sean Kernan. In the late 1970s Mauro traveled around the US to photograph the last of the original Italian immigrants before they were gone. St. Martin's Press published Marinelli's book of photography, Old Timers: The Italians in 1979. The same year his photograph was used for the cover of Rock Fever (Triumph Book, Franklin Watts, 1979) and his photographic images illustrated Ellen Rabinowich's novel about an aspiring rock musician who turns to Qualuudes when his problems with his divorced alcoholic mother become overwhelming. Fed up with Madison Avenue and the demands of commercial photography, Marinelli moved away from New York City to upstate New York where he farmed culinary herbs and established a successful contracting business. In the 1980s and early 90s, Marinelli exhibited his photographs at the Italian American Museums of San Francisco and the Bronx. In the last decade he has returned to his photography and completed three personal photo essays one of which is The Burden of Wings.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0312583648
• ISBN 13: 9780312583644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100