with a story by Davide Enia
Photography
2015, Softcover, Italian
17x22 cm, 180 pages
ISBN: 978889839295
€ 30,00
Photography and Memory, these are the cornerstones of this book. Reportage by Tony Gentile, which recounting the daily life of a city, Palermo and an island full of contradictions: street life, politics, murders, up to the direct and unconscious testimony of an undeclared war. But also of a life that flows, caught in the most different, intimate and fun moments.
In parallel with the photographs by Tony Gentile, a story by Davide Enia accompanies — step by step — the flow of a city and its inhabitants who, from 1989 to 1996, experienced a reality of political upheaval, violence and mafia massacres, but also of reaction and anger of civil society and the state against overflowing violence.
Tony Gentile
(Palermo, 1964) He began his activity as a news photographer in 1989 with Il Giornale di Sicilia, and with Sintesi photo agency in Rome, publishing in major national and international newspapers. In 1992 he took the famous and award-winning photo of judges Falcone and Borsellino, which became an icon of the fight against the mafia. In the same year he began collaborating with the international press agency Reuters for which he made several photographic services of international interest, from the massacres of Capaci and via D'Amelio, to the eruptions of Etna. In 2003 he became staff-photographer until 2019. From 1995 to 2003 he taught photography at a high school in Palermo, making a series of video projects with the students, including a documentary on the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Tony Gentile
Franco Zecchin
Andrea Attardi
Marco Rigamonti
Lia Pasqualino
Roberto Strano
Francesco Francaviglia
Giuseppe Leone
Euro Rotelli
Claudia Marini
Alessio Vissani
Laura Leonelli