Old Timers: The Italians
Text and Photos by Mauro Marinelli
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.
Text and Photographs by Mauro Marinelli. Pre-Publication Comments by Ralph Gibson & Sean Kernan.
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