Fausto Giaccone photographs and papers
Scope and Contents
Photographic projects documented in the collection include reportage of the 1968 student movement in Rome; Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan and Lebanon in 1968 and 1974; the 1981 protest march in Comiso, Sicily; music festivals in Europe; and village life in Southern Italy during the 1970s. Other subjects depicted include fishermen in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily; Paraguan Mennonites; and city and village life throughout Yugoslavia, 1987 to 1990. Highlighted in the collection is Una storia portoghese (A Portuguese Story), a project resulting from two visits Giaccone made to Portugal, in 1975 and 1986, to document rural life in the wake of the Carnation Revolution. Also highlighted in the collection are photographs of Colombia produced for Giaccone's 2013 book , Macondo: The world of Gabriel García Márquez (Rome: Postcard, 2013). Sets of prints are also included from three exhibitions: The Battle of Valle Giulia (American Academy in Rome, Rome, 2008), Viaggio nelle terre dei pastori (Nuoro, 1982), and Sicily 1968-1982 (Salemi, 1982).
Publications included with the collection include Una storia portoghese, the Italian and Portuguese editions; Macondo: The world of Gabriel García Márquez; and '68 Altrove.
Dates
- 1966 - 2013
Creator
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Box 15 (CDs): Restricted fragile material. Access copies of digital files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
5.85 Linear Feet (20 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Fausto Giaccone (born 1943)
His publications include Una storia portoghese (Palermo: Randazzo, 1987); European Millenium Architecture with Roberto Collova (Vienna: Regina Maria Anzenberger, 2003); Volti di Cavallino Treporti (Florence: EDIFIR, 2012); and Macondo: The World of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Rome: Postcart, 2013).
Processing Information
Series IV, 2020 Addition was added in 2021 May.
- Beirut (Lebanon) -- Pictorial works
- Bolivia -- Pictorial works
- Bologna (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Born digital -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Clippings (information artifacts) -- Europe -- 20th Century
- Comiso (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Couço (Santarém, Portugal) -- Pictorial works
- Ecuador -- Pictorial works
- Egypt -- Pictorial works
- Exhibition catalogs -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Farmers -- Portugal -- Pictorial works
- Fedayeen -- Pictorial works
- Fishers -- Italy -- Sicily -- Pictorial works
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Italy -- Rome -- Pictorial works
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Pictorial works
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 -- Homes and haunts
- Gelatin silver prints -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Giaccone, Fausto, 1943-
- Inkjet prints -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Isle of Wight (England) -- Pictorial works
- Isle of Wight Festival (3rd) -- Isle of Wight (England) -- 1970 -- Pictorial works
- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Italy, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
- Jordan -- Pictorial works
- London (England) -- Pictorial works
- Mennonites -- Paraguay -- Pictorial works
- Photographs -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Photojournalists -- Italy
- Photojournalists -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Portugal -- History -- Revolution, 1974
- Riots -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Rome (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Sheepherding -- Pictorial works
- Sicily (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Slides (photographs) -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Youth movements -- England -- Pictorial works
- Youth movements -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Yugoslavia -- Pictorial works
- Yugoslavia -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the Fausto Giaccone photographs and papers
- Author
- by Eve C. Neiger
- Date
- 2015 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2021-5-27: Added Series IV, 2020 Addition.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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