Fridays 7th of July the Ragghianti Foundation inaugurates an immense anthological exibithion of Ferdinand Scianna, one of most internazionally celebrate and appreciate photographers.
The exibithion documents the forty years of Scianna's activity. Ferdinando Scianna proposes 100 photos in black and white. He was born in Bagheria, Sicily, spent the first 22 years of his life in Sicily and became to specialist in the cultures of the island which is the subject of several of his books, from Religious Festivities in Sicily, 1965, to Prix Nadar winner, to his magnum opus Les Siciliens, 1977. In a style akin to that of the Italian neo-realists of the 1940s, using a dramatic, baroque light and dark shadows, Scianna depicts a region in the grip of powerful traditions and religious culture, but at the same time able to assimilate modernity.
Ferdinando Scianna: fridays 7th of July at Ragghianti Foundation in Lucca inauguration of the exibithionfotografie 1963-2006
