Mauro Marinelli
author · photographer
Mauro Marinelli is an American photographer, born and raised in White Plains, New York, to Italian immigrant parents. He earned a BFA in photography and English from Manhattanville College in 1977, and he lists Ralph Gibson, Eva Rubenstein and Sean Kernan among his influences. In the late 1970s he travelled across the United States photographing the last original Italian immigrants. St. Martin's Press published the resulting book, Old Timers: The Italians, in 1979. The same year he illustrated Ellen Rabinowich's Rock Fever (Triumph Books, Franklin Watts). He later worked as a photojournalist before moving to upstate New York, where he farmed culinary herbs and ran a contracting business. His later books include The Burden of Wings (Kehrer Verlag, 2014), a collection of Polaroid cemetery images, and Under Old Stars: Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns (Kehrer Verlag, 2016), made with writer Rob Lloyd. The sources consulted do not publish his birth year or any death information.[1]
- Italian-American immigrant elders
- memory and a disappearing past
- cemetery and mortality imagery
Books
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Old timers: the Italians€28.00
Works by Mauro Marinelli
- 1979 Old Timers: The Italians Photographs of the last original Italian immigrants across the US; the catalogue lists Marinelli as author.
- 1979 Rock Fever Author Ellen Rabinowich; Marinelli is credited as illustrator.
- 2014 The Burden of Wings Polaroid images shot in cemeteries around the world; US release April 2015 (Perseus Books distribution).
- 2016 Under Old Stars: Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns Black-and-white photographs of rural hill towns in southern Italy, co-credited to Rob Lloyd.