Ferdinando Scianna (4 July 1943) is an Italian photographer. Scianna won the Prix Nadar in 1966 and became a full member of

Magnum Photos Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in New York City, Paris, London and Tokyo. It was founded in 1947 in Paris by photographers Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Maria Eis ...

in 1989. He has produced numerous books.

Career

Scianna took up photography while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the

University of Palermo The University of Palermo ( it, Università degli Studi di Palermo) is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806. It is organized in 12 Faculties. History The University of Palermo was officially founded in 1806, although its ...

in the 1960s. He moved to Milan in 1966 and started working as a photographer for ''

L'Europeo ''L'Europeo'' was a prominent Italian weekly news magazine launched on 4 November 1945, by the founder-editors Gianni Mazzocchi and Arrigo Benedetti.

'' in 1967, becoming a journalist there in 1973. Scianna wrote on politics for ''

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'' and on literature and photography for '' La Quinzaine Littéraire''. He first joined

in 1982, becoming a full member in 1989. He took up

fashion photography Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studi ...

in the late 1980s. His first work, in 1987, was to photograph

Marpessa Hennink Marpessa Hennink (born 12 July 1964) is a Dutch fashion model. She is best known for her work as a runway model, which earned her the moniker “The Catwalk Contessa”. Early life Hennink was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a Dutch mother a ...

for

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's advertising campaign for their Fall/Winter collection, clothing which was inspired by

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Publications

Publications by Scianna

*''Feste Religiose in Sicilia.'' Italy: Leonardo da Vinci Arte, 1965. With an essay by

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. **Palermo, Italy: L'Immagine Editrice, 1987. *''La villa dei mostri.'' Einaudi letteratura 55. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1977. . *''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. . *''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. . *''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

. **French-language edition. Contrejour, 1993. . *''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:

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, 1997. . *''Jorge Luis Borges.'' Italy: Franco Sciardelli, 1999. Portraits of

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. *''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. . Text in English, Italian and Spanish. Photographs and writing on his home town of

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. **Italy: Peliti Associati, 2003 *''Antonino Bencivinni, I Miei Volti Della Sicilia.'' Armando, 2006. . *''Ferdinando Scianna.'' Actes Sud, 2008. . Contrasto. . *''Autoritratto di un Fotografo.'' Testi E Pretesti, 2011. . Edited by Bruno Mondadori. *''Obiettivo Ambiguo''. Rome: Contrasto, 2015. .

Publications with contributions by Scianna

*''Henri Cartier-Bresson: Ritratti.'' 1983. Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri. Photographs by

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as c ...

. With a text by Scianna, "I Grandi Fotografi," and by

André Pieyre de Mandiargues André Pieyre de Mandiargues (14 March 1909 – 13 December 1991) was a French writer born in Paris. He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (a niece of the Italian metaphysical pain ...

. Italian-language edition. **''Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits.'' UK: Collins, 1984. English-language edition. **Spanish-language edition.

Award

*1966: Prix Nadar

References

External links

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