Tribute of Cyprus to Italian photographic art “Isolato-Slendido-Marginale”

Mario Carbone
Mario Carbone was born in San Sosti (Cosenza) in 1924. He learned the profession of photography at a young age; from retouching to printing, from photographs suitable for IDs to portraits of newlyweds. He completed a long practical training starting in Calabria where he was born and then in Milan where he also worked in Elio Louxardo’s laboratory. In 1955 he moved to Rome and kicked off his cinematographic activity as a cameraman, director of photography and documentary filmmaker. He was a colleague of Cesare Zavattini and Giuseppe Ferrara, and a friend of Mimmo Rotella, Mimmo Paladino, Enrico Baj and Franco Angeli (many of them were depicted in his portraits). Carbone won the Nastro d’ Argento, the Silver Ribbon Award thanks to a documentary about the aristocracy in Calabria (1964) and the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Biennale in 1966 thanks to a report –which was enriched with Vasco Pratolini’s texts– about the tragic Florence flood of 1966.

Venue:
The Office
32 Kleanthis Christofides Street
Nicosia, Nicosia 1011, Cyprus
Email: press@theofficegallery.com
Phone: +357 99 848 495
Website: www.theofficegallery.com

Opening: Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 20:00
Duration: 16 May – 27 July 2018, Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 16:30