Ferdinando Scianna

Ferdinando Scianna (4 July 1943) is an Italian photographer.[1][2] Scianna won the Prix Nadar in 1966 and became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1989.[3] He has produced numerous books.

Career

Scianna took up photography while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo in the 1960s.[3] He moved to Milan in 1966 and started working as a photographer for L'Europeo in 1967, becoming a journalist there in 1973.[3] Scianna wrote on politics for Le Monde diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire.[3] He first joined Magnum Photos in 1982, becoming a full member in 1989.[3]

He took up fashion photography in the late 1980s.[3] His first work, in 1987, was to photograph Marpessa Hennink for Dolce & Gabbana's advertising campaign for their Fall/Winter collection, clothing which was inspired by Sicily.[4][5][6] 345tr

Publications

Publications by Scianna

• Feste Religiose in Sicilia. Italy: Leonardo da Vinci Arte, 1965. With an essay by Leonardo Sciascia.
  • Palermo, Italy: L'Immagine Editrice, 1987.
• La villa dei mostri. Einaudi letteratura 55. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1977. OCLC 4439726.
• I Siciliani. Italy: Einaudi, 1977.
  • Les Siciliens.France: Editions Denoël, 1977.
• I Grandi Fotografi: Ferdinando Scianno. Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1983.
• Il Grande Libro della Sicilia. Italy: Mandadori, 1984.
• Ferdinando Scianna: l'Istante e la Forma. Siracusa: Ediprint, 1987. OCLC 82374238.
• Città del Mondo. Italy: Bompiani, 1988.
• Kami. Italy: L’Immagine, 1988.
• Ore di Spagna. Spain: Pungitopo, 1988. With a text by Leonardo Sciascia.
  • Rome: Contrasto, 2016. ISBN 978-88-696-5668-2.
• Le Forme del Caos. Italy: Art & SRL, 1989. A retrospective.
• Leonardo Sciascia. Italy: Franco Sciardelli, 1989.
• Men and Trucks. Italy: Iveco, 1990.
• Marpessa. Italy: Leonardo Arte, 1993. Photographs of Marpessa Hennink.
  • French-language edition. Contrejour, 1993. ISBN 978-28-594-9150-5.
• Altrove: Reportage Di Moda. Italy: Federico Motta, 1995.
• Viaggio a Lourdes. Italy: Mondadori, 1996. About religious rituals.
• Dormire Forse Sognare. Tavagnacco, Italy: Artes Gráficas Friulane, 1997.
  • To Sleep, Perchance to Dream. London, New York City: Phaidon, 1997. ISBN 978-07-148-3719-2.
• Jorge Luis Borges. Italy: Franco Sciardelli, 1999. Portraits of Jorge Luis Borges.
• Niños del Mundo. Ayuntamiento De La Coruña, Spain, 1999
• Obiettivo Ambiguo. Italy: Rizzoli, 2001.
• Mondo Bambino. Italy: L'arte a stampa, 2002.
• Quelli di Bagheria. Lugano: Fondazione Galleria Gottardo, 2002. ISBN 978-88-864-5516-9. Text in English, Italian and Spanish. Photographs and writing on his home town of Bagheria in Sicily.
  • Italy: Peliti Associati, 2003
• Antonino Bencivinni, I Miei Volti Della Sicilia. Armando, 2006. ISBN 978-88-835-8890-7.
• Ferdinando Scianna. Actes Sud, 2008. ISBN 978-27-427-7217-9. Contrasto. ISBN 978-88-696-5100-7.
• Autoritratto di un Fotografo. Testi E Pretesti, 2011. ISBN 978-88-615-9618-4. Edited by Bruno Mondadori.
• Obiettivo Ambiguo. Rome: Contrasto, 2015. ISBN 978-88-696-5618-7.

Publications with contributions by Scianna

• Henri Cartier-Bresson: Ritratti. 1983. Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri. Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. With a text by Scianna, "I Grandi Fotografi," and by André Pieyre de Mandiargues . Italian-language edition.
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits. UK: Collins, 1984. English-language edition.
  • Spanish-language edition.

Award

• 1966: Prix Nadar[3]

References

1. Buonadonna, Sergio (4 April 2010). "Scianna". La Republica. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
2. "L' inesauribile curiosità del fotografo creativo". La Republica. 16 April 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
3. "Ferdinando Scianna: Italian, b. 1943". Magnum Photos. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
4. Locatelli, Rossella. "Marpessa - Vogue Italia Encyclo". Vogue Italia. Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
5. Muñoz Martinez-Mora, Ines (May 2013). "Marpessa Clase Superior" [Marpessa Top Class]. Vogue España (in Spanish): 206–216.
6. Lucchini, Cristina (November 2013). "Brunch Con Marpessa" [Brunch With Marpessa]. Glamour Italia (in Italian): 129–130.

External links

• Profile at Magnum Photos
• Scianna's photographs of Marpessa Hennink in Sicily for Dolce & Gabbana