Giovanni Chiaramonte

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Giovanni Chiaramonte
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Born1948 (1948)
Varese, Italy
Died (aged 75)
Milan, Italy
OccupationPhotographer

Giovanni Chiaramonte (1948 – 18 October 2023) was an Italian photographer, art theorist, art curator and academic.

Biography

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Born in Varese from parents who had moved there from Gela, Sicily,[1][2] Chiaramonte graduated in philosophy from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.[3] He started his professional activity as a photographer in the late 1960s.[4] He held his first expositions in 1974.[4] In 1977, he co-founded with Luigi Ghirri Punto e Virgola, the first Italian publishing house entirely devoted to photography.[2]

Having among his models Hans Urs von Balthasar and Romano Guardini,[2] Chiaramonte's approach to photography aimed at conflating ethics, aesthetics and theology.[1] He considered photography as an instrument of both meditation and knowledge,[2] and as a meeting point between the exteriority of the world and the interiority of the person.[5] Often described as a "photographer of the thought", he gave a strong importance to light, which in his work had a philosophical and even metaphysical metaphorical significance.[1][5]

Chiaramonte was professor of History and Theory of Photography at the IULM University of Milan and at the University of Palermo.[4] He was also a theorist of photography, an essayist and an art curator.[1][4] He died in Milan on 18 October 2023, at the age of 75.[3]

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