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Letizia Battaglia
9788869659782

21,5x29 cm
199 pagine 
128 fotografie in b/n
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Letizia Battaglia. Life, Love and Death in Sicily is the catalog published on the occasion of the monographic exhibition, open to the public from October 8 2024 to February 23 2025 at the Photographers' Gallery in London, curated by Anna Dannemann, in collaboration with the Letizia Battaglia Archive, Falcone Foundation for the Arts, and with the contribution of Candido Speroni and Carla Fendi Speroni Foundation and the Italian Cultural Institute London.
The exhibition, like the catalog, testifies to Italian life and society with photographs from the great photographer's historical archive. For nearly fifty years, Letizia Battaglia photographed, observed and lived intensely her time and especially her city, Palermo. Letizia Battaglia is a tribute to her work, her intense and new gaze, her yearning for freedom and her always being a woman against the tide. An uninterrupted album that goes from Milan to the face of Pier Paolo Pasolini, from the many mafia deaths to the unconscious elegance of the little girls of the Cala district in Palermo; and then the religious processions, the faces of Piersanti Mattarella, Giovanni Falcone up to the ferocious boss Leoluca Bagarella.
For almost fifty years, Letizia Battaglia photographed, observed and intensely experienced times she lived in and above all her city, Palermo. Letizia Battaglia. Life, Love and Death in Sicily is a tribute to her work, her fresh and acute gaze, her desire for freedom and her always being a woman who did not conform. According to Shoair Mavlian, director of The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Battaglia’s pictures could been seen “through the lens of life, something that is chaotic, random, unpredictable, cruel and dangerous, as well as full of love and empathy”. Accompanied by an extensive essay by Paolo Falcone, editor of this book and curator of the exhibition of the same title, the images in the book appear in a remarkable and unique sequence in which, as Falcone writes, “photography and daily life merge in a single path that highlights an extraordinary visual sensibility, the courage to stand only the distance of a punch or a caress away to capture the image, often taken in extreme circumstances, but always full of dignity”.