Category:Giuseppe Scarabone

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  • English: Aka "Peppino Scao". This model of William von Gloeden's appears in his early production, often inside San Domenico's cloister or at the seaside. He is rather short, in his early adolescence, with masculine but ephebic traits, that Gloeden enhanced through retouching, especially around his eyes. He must have been born around the late 1860s. For a while (roughly, up to number 400 of Gloeden's catalogue) his presence is rather assiduous, in some 40/50 shots.
Paired with the "dark skinned model", he features in one of the most famous images by Gloeden, "Mandorli in fiore" ("Almond trees in bloom"), at numbers 151 B of Gloeden's catalogue. The publication of two images of him (catalogue numbers: 152 and 186) in "The studio" in 1893 sets an "ante quem" date, but his collaboration with Gloeden must have dated around the mid-1880s.
He is identified in two different ways in Gloeden's archive. In the album now at the Fondazione Alinari, he appears as "Peppino Scao" (which might be Gloeden's rendition for "Giuseppe Scavo", pronounced "ska'wu") "Scavo" being an actual surname in Taormina). Furthemore, an annotation on the envelope of negative glass number 140 of the 13x18 cm size, currently at the same Alinari Archive in Florence, calls him "Pep[p]e Scarabone", therefore, Giuseppe Scarabone. Which might also have been a nickname ("inciuria") since "scarabone" means "cockroach".

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