Signed; Ferdinando Scianna - Remembered Sicily - 2001

Exceptionally signed first-page copy by Ferdinando Scianna (born 1943), unique and unattainable in a signed copy and virtually unavailable today in an unsigned copy on the Internet. 160 pages and about a hundred color photographs, many printed as double-page spreads, with location captions, texts in Italian by the writer Dacia Maraini. Solid publisher’s hardcover with red cloth spine on the back, illustrated on the cover. In excellent condition, practically like new.

Ferdinando Scianna presents at once the emblematic landscapes of his native Sicily, images of daily life of its inhabitants sometimes in close proximity to archaeological sites, the richness of his agriculture (but also the waste of these oranges discarded), the work of charcoal burners in the forest, the destructions of World War II with ruins still in place, the ecological ugliness of the cementing of the countryside, the skeletons kept in the catacombs, volcanic eruptions, religious festivals, etc.

This book was published in 2001 thanks to Ferdinando Scianna’s photographic archives of his region of origin, Sicily, and some of these photographs had been printed in small format in 1984 in a book with a rather tourist-oriented vocation published by Mondadori Editions. Here the large format with double-page photographs measuring 34 cm by 48 cm and high-quality printing better conveys its artistic quality.

Ferdiando Scianna was born in 1943 in Bagheria near Palermo in Sicily. He began photographing his native Sicily at a very young age and after studies in philosophy and art history he immediately published a book “Feste Religiose in Sicilia” where his photographs were accompanied by a text from the famous writer Leonardo Sciascia. This book immediately achieved great success and is recognized as an important photographic book; referenced in Photobook by Parr & Badger (volume 3, page 111). In 1967, Ferdinando Scianna settled in Milan and began working for the weekly L’Europeo as a photographer and journalist and he would become the Paris correspondent for this weekly in the 1970s. During these Paris years Ferdinando Scianna became friends with Henri Cartier-Bresson and in 1982 he joined the Magnum Photos agency. Chance also turned him into a fashion photographer for Dolce & Gabbana and the book Marpessa, which sprang from this first experience, is today highly sought after. Throughout these years Ferdiando Scianna traveled widely around the world as a journalist and then as a photographer internationally recognized, but his photographic work has always remained faithful to Sicily, which he photographed relentlessly.

Copy in excellent condition, practically like new (see photo). Book from my personal collection kept as is with the greatest care. Shipped protected with reinforced packaging and international tracking guaranteed.

1.6 kg excluding packaging