Talk:Pietro Marubi

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-On the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the death of the renowned photographer

The arrival of Italian Pietro Marubbi (Piaçenca, 1834-South, 1903) in Albania barely XIX century, was probably a coincidence, but the fate of our culture turned out quite well. He was taken home with patriotic activities against the Austro-Hungarian occupation. Prosecutions for this tightened to leave Italy and go to the top in Corfu and later in the South. Tips Italian Consul in South to get to the South "that there are Catholic, would not take possession if there will not find the European cultural environment of this city. In the city of birth, Pietro Marubbi had extended painting, sculpture, architecture and photography .... With this latest Italian by Piaçenca decided to deal in a new residence. Thus, it about the year 1855, opened in South atelien first photo with the name "Studio Marubbi, most of the money in the first place in the Balkans.

Began to photograph the process of liquid kolodiumit across Europe, mainly people familiar but unfamiliar city. Among the pictures of this period and it is known kaçakut province, Kazazi Hamza (1858), in which emanate photographers. Three years later (1861), the first photographic implements landscape featuring'm Shkodra, Pietro began përthithti Marubbi Albanian mentality and thanks to a special welcome to his Shkodra. Thus, after learning the Albanian, Shkodra his name to Peter shqiptarizuan. Being a bit of the painter and sculptor, he performs the wall paintings of the city's Orthodox Church is also often taken a different opinion from the citizens for their children's skills in visual arts. One of these was the Arsen Idromeno that advice Marubi master sent his son Cole to study painting in Venice, Italy. Perhaps the artist known Idromeno is a great gift for Peter Marubi our culture.

Among the time, to emerge from philosophical master atelieja outdoor photograph of social subjects, but also historical. This period belong such pictures as very popular "beggar on the outskirts of Shkodra" (1875) with great expressive force, and "Female Portrait" (1878) and "small gypsy. Great value is the picture of Peter Marubi delegates representing the Province, Ottoman Empire Shkodra in Prizren League (1878) and reflects what Mirdita insurrection (1876-1877). With these photographs he left in collaboration with the European magazine known as "L'Illustration", "La Guerra d'Oriente" and "The Illustraed London News", thus becoming the first in history fotoreporteri Albanian photography. Marubi photos on military movements of Albanians for freedom, are almost the same age as those held on the first world war files as the Englishman and American Brady Fenton. Also mention that he has carried pictures of money in Montenegro (1865). Images in atelie, P. Marubi of natural lighting implement entering a manhole (roof window), where space was the introduction of variable light. As background, inside the studio master as all his European colleagues, use of painted cloth suitable to that which fotografohej, as the nature of the quiet, natural landscape of Albania, a big family environment, etc..

Also, he often decide within atelies the grass, tree branches and trees, always with ideas about the subject to be photographing. At first, Marubi kolodium process used in the preparation of negativit, while some viteve1885-1890, and replaced with dry glass plates produced in factories with industrial bromuri silver gelatin, which greatly facilitate and make more practical photography. Most of his pictures are printed in black and white, but also in other cuttlefish. Marubi Pjeter photo creativity, includes many genres as fotoportretin, natural and urban landscape, ethnography, history, photography, etc. with social subjects. and, in some ways it is a "mine" valuable to scholars of different fields of science. Hearing of his early productions were veprimatrisë France and Germany with dimensions 30cm by 40 cm. Many of his photographs are printed as post cards in question by foreigners for their beauty and ekzotikën. Peter Marubi, was honored with a gold medal ("con Medaglia d'Oro Premiato") for files of this and learn from a postcard, which unfortunately, is not determined nor the date or place of competition.

About the year 1885, Peter Marubi takes as "shop guy" pesëmbëdhjetvjeçarin, Kodheli Mikel, who works daily in addition, began to learn the secrets of the process of photographing. It's like the old masters and began to help save the boy without giving signs that it may become the master photographer. And not gabua. No fill yet twenty years old, Keli (Mikeli) knew almost all the hiding place of vocational, artistic and even demands.

In the last years of his life, Peter Marubi felt some spiritual quiet. He not only had "planted" in the U.S. picture, but had also created a sequential worthy of his work. But it was not less of it. So, Kel Kodheli later Marubi family name after extinguishing the Marubi-old, led to further photographic activity "Studio Marubi-South" as the technical view, as well as art from Marubi Peter, who still has monumentalizuar his name as the father of Albanian photography. Stupidus Maximus (talk) 14:27, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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