{"id":565541,"date":"2026-04-05T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:36:21","slug":"a-tourists-portrait-of-american-cities-in-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565541\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tourist&#8217;s Portrait of American Cities in 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a European, you imagined all this enormous wealth, but walking around there was also a lot of poverty\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mario Carnicelli<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-482380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Waiting-queue-at-job-centre-Chicago-1966-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966 \" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waiting queue at job centre, Chicago, 1966<\/p>\n<p>Mario Carnicelli was 29 in 1966 when his won a photography competition sponsored by Popular Photography magazine, Mamiya and Pentax. The prize was a trip from his native <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbak.com\/tag\/italy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a> to America to take pictures in <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbak.com\/tag\/chicago\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbak.com\/tag\/detroit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit<\/a>, Dallas and <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbak.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mario\u2019s photographs were not published then nor did they see the light of day during the following decade when he worked as a photojournalist. They weren\u2019t published when he opened a camera shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbak.com\/tag\/florence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence<\/a>. It was only when his shop closed in 2010 and a curator found his pictures among the transparencies and prints in his cellar that Mario\u2019s work became known.<\/p>\n<p>As for what he went to America in search of, Carnicelli said he was drawn to the country\u2019s \u201cmulticulturalism, fashion, individuality, freedom and pursuit of happiness uniquely underpinned by a pervasive loneliness and rootlessness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-482382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Grocery-Shopping-Harlem-1966.-Photograph-Mario-Carnicelli-1200x1200.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery Shopping, Harlem, 1966. Photograph- Mario Carnicelli<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Yellow-cab-Chicago-1966.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1020\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow cab, Chicago, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/South-Pacific-Restaurant-Chicago-1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\"  \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flashbackshop.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ART-ADVERT.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Pacific Restaurant, Chicago, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/payphone-Chicago-1966.jpeg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Men-Wanted-shopfront-Chicago-1966.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1015\"  \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flashbackshop.com\/collections\/all-t-shirts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/t-shirt-ads-sep25.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men Wanted shopfront, Chicago, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Schoolboy-New-York-1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1020\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schoolboy, New York, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mario-Carnicelli-in-New-York-1966.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Carnicelli in NYC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chicago-1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flashbackshop.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ART-ADVERT.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chicago-1966-shop.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1195\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC-1967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington DC, 1967<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trade-union-workers-Detroit-1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trade union workers, Detroit, 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/New-York-City-1966-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NYC 1966<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lincoln-Memorial-Washington-1967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lincoln Memorial, Washington , 1967<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/New-York-City-1966-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selling news in NYC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fashion-students-New-York-1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fashion students, NYC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-482376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mario-Carnicelli-in-New-York-1966.jpg\" alt=\"America 1966\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Carnicelli in NYC<\/p>\n<p>American Voyage by Mario Carnicelli by Reel Art Press. This article was originally published in June 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs a European, you imagined all this enormous wealth, but walking around there was also a lot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-565541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}