Ferdinando SCIANNA (born in 1943). *The Sicilians*, 1977. Po - Lot 48

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Ferdinando SCIANNA (born in 1943). *The Sicilians*, 1977. Po - Lot 48
Ferdinando SCIANNA (born in 1943). *The Sicilians*, 1977. Post-processed silver print, 40 x 50 cm, circa 2000. Titled “Laura in Napoli’ (Italy) for ‘Moda,’ 87-11-47-8A” and bearing the photographer’s stamp on the reverse. “Recruited by Henri Cartier-Bresson, ‘his lifelong mentor,’ Ferdinando Scianna was the first Italian photographer to join the Magnum agency in 1982. At the age of thirty-seven, this recognition by his peers also confirmed the pivotal role Scianna played in the postwar Italian photography scene. A native of Sicily, Scianna began by passionately photographing his island and went on to study literature and philosophy in Palermo. This classical and humanistic education largely explains the deeply literary—but also ethnological—dimension of his work. “Ferdinando Scianna embodies a rare form of photography that can be interpreted on multiple levels, whose visual quality is grounded in a vast cultural foundation.” Blurb for the book, Ferdinando Scianna, *Les Siciliens*, Denoël, 1977.
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