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Caio Mario Garrubba (born on 1923 in Naples deceased on May 3, 2015 in Spoleto) was an italian photographer.

Biographie
Caio Mario Garrubba was born in Naples in a calabrese family. His grand-father teaches at the University and his father is a surgeon. From 1941 to 1947, he studies medicine then history and finally philosophy. In 1946, In 1946, he joins the Italian Communist Party. In 1947, he decides to abandon his studies and starts working in Rome in the union newspaper from the Italian General Confederation of Labour.

In 1952, he goes to Spain for a second trip, equipped with a camera Rolleiflex, where he takes his first photographs that will be published in the weekly magazine Il Mondo. He thus begins his photojournalist career. The same year he founded with Franco Pinna, Plinio De Martiis, Pablo volta, and Nicola Sansone the « Collective of associate photographers », which will be dismantled in 1954 because of financial difficulties.

In 1957, Caio Mario Garrubba is the second photographer from the west to enter China after Henri Cartier-Bresson. He worked extensively in the former countries of the East and throughout his work is primarily interested in everyday's life of "normal" people.

In 1962, in Warsaw he marries Alla Evgrafovna Folomietova that will accompany him throughout his life.

Caio Mario Garrubba dies in Spoleto on may 3, 2015 aged 91.

Personal exhibitions

 * 1961 : Un punto di vista, Gallery La Tartaruga, Rome
 * 1963-1964 : Sguardo sulla Cina, Pesaro, Palermo, Genoa, Rome
 * 1969 : Caio Carrubba, Moscow
 * 1969 : Caio Carrubba, Vilnius, Lithuania
 * 1970 : New! York City Transit System, Gallery La Tartaruga, Rome
 * 1973 : Napoli d‘inverno, Villa Pignatelli, Naples
 * 1988 : Caio Carrubba, Moscow, USSR
 * 1988 : Dal punto di vista, Leningrad
 * 1988 : Caio Garrubba, Vilnius, Lithuania
 * 1992 : Uno & Due, Punto Eggi / Eggi di Spoleto, Spoleto
 * 2005 : Arte contemporanea, Centro commerciale Cinecittà 2, Rome

Group exhibitions

 * 1965 : 1st Weltausstellung der Photographie, Germany
 * 1967 : The Camera as Witness, Canada
 * 1968 : Photokina, Cologne
 * 1968 : 2nd Weltausstellung der Photographie, Germany
 * 1973 : 3rd Weltausstellung der Photographie, Germany
 * 1978-1979 : Per una storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia Milan, Turin, Palermo, Sorrento
 * 1981-1982 : L ‘informazione negata, Bari, Cagliari, Milan
 * 1983 : participe au Premio Scanno — Scanno (AQ)
 * 1990 : Il mondo dei fotografi, Istituto nazionale per la grafica, Rome
 * 2005 : Il fotogiornalismo in Italia 1945-2005, Linee di tendenza e percorsi, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Milan, Cagliari, Montpellier
 * 2006 : Pogrom a Leapoli 1941, Punto Eggi / Eggi di Spoleto, Spoleto
 * 2010 : La fotografia in Italia, Centro internazionale di Fotografia, Milan

Posthumous exhibitions

 * 2015 : La Calabria di Caio Carrubba, Festival del Peperoncino, Diamante
 * 2016 : Il mondo di Caio M. Garruba, Punto Eggi / Eggi di Spoleto, Spoleto

Récompenses et distinctions

 * 1965 : 1st International Award of Photography (ex-equo), Genoa

Bibliographie

 * Weltausstellung der Photographie, 555 photographs by 264 photographers from 30 countries on the topic : What is man?, Verlag Henri Nannen GmbH, Hambourg
 * Le due Germanie, Hamburg, 1963
 * China (collective), Life World Library, New York 1963
 * La donna nella fotografia in Enciclopedia della donna, Rome 1965
 * Lazzaro alla tua porta, with Calogero Cascio, Rome 1967
 * I cinesi, Milan 1969
 * Caio Garrubba, ed. Fabbri, Milan, 1983
 * Napoli 83 Napoli d’inverno, ed. Electa, Milan, 1983
 * Alexandr Rodcenko [texts, Caio Mario Garrubba, Alexandre Mikhailovitch Rodtchenko], ed. Fabbri, Milan, 1983
 * Caio M. Garrubba Photographs, Italy, 2000

Liens externes

 * Site dedicated to the work of Caio Mario Garrubba
 * Official website dedicated to the work of Caio Mario Garrubba

Notes and references
Category:Photographers Category:Photojournalist