Ferdinando Scianna


Ferdinando Scianna is an Italian photographer. Scianna won the Prix Nadar in 1966 and became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1989. He has produced numerous books.
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Career

Scianna took up photography while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo in the 1960s. He moved to Milan in 1966 and started working as a photographer for L'Europeo in 1967, becoming a journalist there in 1973. Scianna wrote on politics for Le Monde diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire. He first joined Magnum Photos in 1982, becoming a full member in 1989.
He took up fashion photography in the late 1980s. 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.
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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..
  • 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 Marpessa Hennink.
  • *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: Phaidon, 1997..
  • 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.. 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..
  • 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. 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.

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