Letizia Battaglia.
Actes Sud| N° d'inventaire | 31704 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 144 p., paperback |
| Publication | Arles, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782330207175 |
Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022) should have died a hundred times over under the bullets of the mafiosi, whose atrocities she doggedly documented, particularly when the Corleonesi clan multiplied its assassinations, causing more than a thousand deaths in Palermo in the early 1980s.
A rare woman among photojournalists, she learned photography as an autodidact at the newspaper L'Ora, a communist daily in Palermo. In 1985, she won the W. Eugene Smith Photojournalism Award, and this marked the beginning of her international recognition.
Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022) should have died a hundred times over under the bullets of the mafiosi, whose atrocities she doggedly documented, particularly when the Corleonesi clan multiplied its assassinations, causing more than a thousand deaths in Palermo in the early 1980s.
A rare woman among photojournalists, she learned photography as an autodidact at the newspaper L'Ora, a communist daily in Palermo. In 1985, she won the W. Eugene Smith Photojournalism Award, and this marked the beginning of her international recognition.