Contrastobooks

24,5 x 32 cm
252 pages
180 B/W photos
Hardbound with jacket

in French language

Ferdinando Scianna embodies a rare form of photography, the one that can be read at different levels and whose aesthetic and plastic qualities are based on a vast culture.
Sicilian, writer and literate, fond of anthropology and human sciences, Ferdinando Scianna transfers the pathos and lyricism with which he perceives life, in photography.
Chosen by Cartier-Bresson - his all-time “maestro”- to enter Magnum in 1982 (the first italian photographer to be part of the agency), thus confirming the strength and importance of his photography that had always been connected to his land, his memories, his thoughts, to ancient myths relived in a contemporary key, to his mentors from whom to learn, to sudden heartbeats, to faces recognised and never forgotten. To humanity.
This volume presents a retrospective selection of Ferdinando Scianna’s images and will accompany the exhibition in Paris at the MEP scheduled from June to September 2009, and in Milan from January to March 2010.