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Letizia Battaglia : fotografia come scelta di vita = photography as a life choice / a cura di Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
Fine Arts Library TR647 .B28594 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Battaglia, Letizia, 1935-2022, photographer.
- Standardized Title:
- Photographs. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Battaglia, Letizia, 1935-2022.
- Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Documentary photography--Exhibitions.
- Documentary photography.
- Battaglia, Letizia, 1935-2022--Exhibitions.
- Battaglia, Letizia.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Prima edizione.
- Other Title:
- Fotografia come scelta di vita
- Place of Publication:
- Venezia : Marsilio, marzo 2019.
- Language Note:
- Text in Italian with parallel English translation.
- Summary:
- Over 300 newly published works by Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), one of Italy's most celebrated photographers, are collected in this major new survey spanning the entirety of her 30-year photographic career. In photographs and contact prints from Battaglia's own archive, the book offers a comprehensive review of her work's civically engaged model for photography, typified by her iconic depictions of political protests and Mafia killings in her native Palermo in Sicily, taken while Battaglia was employed as photography director at the leftist daily newspaper L'Ora. Including portraits of subjects such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, the mob boss Leoluca Bagarella and the Sicilian politician Piersanti Mattarella (assassinated by the Mafia), the photographs in this collection showcase Battaglia's attention to the most decisive events in Italy, both political and cultural, along with non-newsworthy records of the daily lives of people in Palermo.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibiton held at the Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy, March 30-August 18, 2019.
- Chiefly illustrated.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-286).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788831744331 :
- OCLC:
- 1101365612
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