SIGNED; Ferdinando Scianna, Dominique Fernandez, Leonardo Sciascia - Les Siciliens - 1977

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"Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo. It was then that he began to photograph the Sicilian people systematically. Feste Religiose in Sicilia (1965) included an essay by the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, and it was the first of many collaborations with famous writers.
Scianna moved to Milan in 1966. The following year he started working for the weekly magazine L’Europeo, first as a photographer, then as a journalist from 1973. He also wrote on politics for Le Monde Diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire."
(Magnum website)

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"Ferdinando Scianna entered the field of fashion photography in the late 1980s and at the end of the decade he published a retrospective, Le Forme del Caos (1989).
Scianna returned to exploring the meaning of religious rituals with Viaggio a Lourdes (1995), then two years later he published a collection of images of sleepers - 'Dormire Forse Sognare' ('To Sleep, Perchance to Dream'). His portraits of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges were published in 1999, and in the same year the exhibition Niños del Mundo displayed Scianna’s images of children from around the world.
In 2002 Scianna completed Quelli di Bagheria, a book on his home town in Sicily, in which he tries to reconstruct the atmosphere of his youth through writings and photographs of Bagheria and the people who live there."
(Magnum website)

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Denoel, Paris. 1977. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 240 x 310 mm. 168 pages. Photos: Ferndinando Scianna. Text: Dominique Fernandez, Leonardo Sciascia. Text in French.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket quite fresh and complete with no missing parts; along the edges like so often with trace of use. Overall fine, much better than usual condition.

Super beautiful book by Magnum photographer Ferdinando Scianna with original dustjacket -
signed by the artist.