Giuseppe Bruno (photographer)

Template:Unreviewed Giuseppe Bruno (Capizzi, 1836 - Taormina, 1904) was an Italian photographer who worked in Taormina, Capizzi and Sicily in the 19th century.

Biography

He was educated as an engineer and he married a rich woman. Living on her income he could dedicate himself to his passion: photography. At the time this was a relatively new form of art, which required technical skills. He was keen on experimenting with new techniques of impression and printing of images. He even defined himself a "chemist-photographer".

He was teacher to Wilhelm von Gloeden, to whom he passed the passion for experimenting with the techniques of impression and printing of images.

His production was mainly dedicated to landscapes and monuments of the local areas with the succesfull introduction of human figures in the sceneries.

His work was always very technically competent. He rarely pushed himself away from the neat documentation of the places being photographed. And he lacked introspection and social protest for the conditions of the Sicilian poor, which he usually photographed with documentary aim.

Probably some of his works done in Limina (a small town in the mountains near Taormina) could be attributed to his pupil Wilhelm von Gloeden.