Signed; Ferdinando Scianna - Quelli di Bagheria - 2002

Exceptionally signed copy on the first page of this first edition of the Gottardo Foundation of Lausanne by Ferdinando Scianna (born in 1943). Also findable on the internet both in signed and unsigned copies (do not confuse with the Peliti red-covered edition). 384 pages and nearly 500 black-and-white photographs, Italian text by Ferdinando Scianna throughout the book as commentary on the photographs and at the end of the book translations of these comments into English and Spanish accompanied by a five-page text by Ferdinando Scianna in Italian, English and Spanish. Paperback. In very good condition.

"Those from Bagheria" are the inhabitants of Bagheria, a small town on the sea and immersed in the countryside near Palermo. This book is undeniably the most personal book by Ferdinando Scianna, who was born in Sicily and spent his childhood and youth in this small town of Bagheria. Scianna began to be interested in photography at the age of 16 when his father gave him a camera that he started to use extensively, and all these photographs, with the exception of those used for his first published book in 1965, "Religious Festivals in Sicily", stayed for more than 30 years in an old wooden cabinet with their negatives. They are photos of his family, of his village neighbors, of children's games, of university peers with the discovery of mixing of social groups. They are also photographs of the agricultural world and the fishing world that characterize this coastal village of Bagheria, and religious festivals as well. Ferdinando Scianna here makes a work of memory since ways of life have changed since then, and if he gives us this photographic testimony it is because his personal experience touches the universal experience of all those who have lived in a particular place, that of their origins.

To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, then you can return to the standard display at any time.

Book from my personal collection kept with the utmost care, in very good condition with very slight wear to the cover (see photo). Very effectively protected shipment and internationally trackable insured postage.

1 kg. excluding packaging