PDF Letizia Battaglia Photography as a Life Choice Francesca Alfano Miglietti Letizia Battaglia Books

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Over 300 newly published works by Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), one of Italyâ€™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 Battagliaâ€™s own archive, the book offers a comprehensive review of her workâ€™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 Lâ€™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 Battagliaâ€™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.