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The portraits featured in this book were taken by Franco Lanteri in Lentini, a town in southeastern Sicily. He belonged to a generation of Italian photographers from the 1950s who learned their craft on the job. In this provincial town, Lanteri covered various social events, such as weddings, birthdays, and baptisms, but also took passport photos. The averted gaze of the anonymous subjects, their near-three-quarter poses, as well as the use of light and black-and-white seem here to be in complete contradiction with current photographic standards for ID documents. Presented as large-format reproductions, they reflect a narrative approach, or perhaps one more suited to an anthropological study.
A & M Bookstore, 2017
400 pages
21.5 × 30 cm
ISBN
The portraits featured in this book were taken by Franco Lanteri in Lentini, a town in southeastern Sicily. He belonged to a generation of Italian photographers from the 1950s who learned their craft on the job. In this provincial town, Lanteri covered various social events, such as weddings, birthdays, and baptisms, but also took passport photos. The averted gaze of the anonymous subjects, their near-three-quarter poses, as well as the use of light and black-and-white seem here to be in complete contradiction with current photographic standards for ID documents. Presented as large-format reproductions, they reflect a narrative approach, or perhaps one more suited to an anthropological study.
A & M Bookstore, 2017
400 pages
21.5 × 30 cm
ISBN
