Scianna Ferdinando : photographer
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 from 1973 as a
journalist. He also wrote on politics for Le Monde Diplomatique and on
literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire.
In
1977 he published Les Siciliens in France and La Villa Dei Mostri in
Italy. During this period Scianna met Henri Cartier-Bresson, and in 1982
he joined Magnum Photos. He entered the field of fashion photography in
the late 1980s. 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.
Quote: “A
photograph is not created by a photographer. What they does is just to
open a little window and capture it. The world then writes itself on the
film. The act of the photographer is closer to reading than it is to
writing. They are the readers of the world.”
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