2017 Giulio Parisio

Giulio Parisio was born in Naples in 1891. He worked as a photojournalist until 1915, when he was enlisted in the Air Force to carry out photographic aerial survey services during the First World War. In 1918 he was part of the expedition in Dalmatia to detect all Italian vestiges existing on the Adriatic coast. The photographs taken during this expedition were diffused by the press, and then collected in several exhibitions.

In the mid-twenties he opened his photo studio in Naples, in Piazza del Plebiscito, in what is now the headquarters of the “Archivio Fotografico Parisio”.

The broad photographic experience of Giulio Parisio ranges from landscape photography to the futuristic experimentation, anthropological research and industrial photography, from portraits to advertising. Portraits were certainly the most appreciated by the Neapolitan bourgeois; However, the field in which Parisio best expresses its quality as a photographer-artist, is the avant-garde research.

Giulio Parisio participated in many national and international competitions and photo exhibitions, from Rome to Chicago always obtaining the highest awards: we recall the participation at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts (Paris, 1925), the 1927 Photographic Competition of Rome, the first Exhibition of Masters (Turin, 1928), the International Photo Exhibition (Fiera di Milano, 1932) at the International Biennial of Photographic Art (Rome, 1933) and the International Exposition in Chicago (1933).

An eclectic Artist, Parisio also realized numerous productions for important Italian companies during the most important Italian trade shows. 

In the fifties Parisio’s photographic production radically shifts to the industrial sector and very interesting are the images created for the Italsider of Bagnoli and the Olivetti in Pozzuoli. He died in Naples on February 17, 1967.