Meet two emerging designers at the time, Dolce and Gabbanaand photograph Marpessa, magnetic top model (pictured below), in “her” Sicily: it is the consecration and marks the change of pace for fashion photography. It is the first of many new experiences that Scianna elaborates, allergic to genres and labels: anthropologist of the realtouches the world with its unique gaze.
Marpessa. Caltagirone, 1987 © Ferdinando Scianna
Divided into six sectionsthe exhibition opens with the lights and faces of beloved Sicily: there are the alleys of Bagheriathe religious holidays. Room after room, the eye widens the horizon: from Lourdes to Beirutpassing through theAfrica, there is no area that Ferdinando Scianna has not struck to seek those empathy “of the pain of others which is the only thing that triggers your anxiety for happiness”. Let’s go inside hers obsessions: the mirrors, the shadows. We meet Leonardo Sciascia in a section of portraits so familiar that they leave you speechless. I’m the women of Scianna to greet us before going out: Marpessa obviously, but not only her, many bodies, faces and gestures that are a tribute to generativity.
There is everything Scianna in here: the reporter and the fashion photographer, the documentary maker and the lyricist. There are the shots “for books made to live, and books made to live, which are what define, for yourself, what you are”.
Which shows, what a crazy journey through images. There is to be grateful.
Source: Vanity Fair
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