Giuseppe Cavalli

e consulted permanently at the MUSINF and on the Museum’s website.
It should also be mentioned that the research and cataloguing inspired by Daniele Cavalli has greatly facilitated
the organization of the exhibition at Palazzo del Duca in Senigallia, and the creation of this catalogue published by
the Senigallia Municipal Council. The Council’s photographic collections are truly impressive and generally considered
fundamental to understanding the dynamics and achievements of fine art photography in the twentieth century.
Hence, the collections and digital catalogues are consulted continuously by scholars and students from Italian and
foreign universities, and a special video library has been set up at the MUSINF.
One must consider that there are over 200 works by Mario Giacomelli, almost 200 by Giuseppe Cavalli, hundreds
of works by the exponents of the Misa group (Bocci, Branzi, Camisa, Ferroni, Malvagia, Pellegrini and
Simoncelli, who along with Cavalli and Giacomelli participated in Misa’s activities from its foundation) and by the
artists who adhered to the Manifesto del passaggio di frontiera (Berengo Gardin, Brunetti, Carli, Cutini, Giacomelli,
Melchiorri, Mengucci, Renzi, Valenti). There are also photographs by artists, some of whom are still alive, who
worked with Giacomelli and Cavalli. Of these I would just like to mention Tortelli, who took the superb photos of
Giacomelli busy with his camera at Scanno, which have gone down in photographic history. The MUSINF library
also contains extensive bibliographic documentation on the photographers represented and, where Giuseppe Cavalli
is concerned, on his critical contributions to various specialist magazines.
The MUSINF uses state-of-the-art equipment for its digital cataloguing and the conservation of its collections.
This equipment was specifically chosen by the Museum staff, as a result of in-depth analyses carried out with their
managerial counterparts at the National Library in Paris. It should also be mentioned that it was precisely the meetings
with Anne Biroleau that produced the superb exhibition on Mario Giacomelli at the National Library, which
attracted a huge number of visitors and was reviewed extensively in the international press.
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