Fosco Maraini photographs of Sicily
Overview
The collection includes photographs taken by Fosco Maraini in various locations in Sicily.
Dates
- Creation: 1950 - 1952
Creator
- Maraini, Fosco, 1912-2004 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question, unless otherwise designated.
Extent
26 photographic printsThe collection includes photographs taken by Fosco Maraini in Sicily between 1950 and 1952. These include views of various places such as antiquities in Selinunte, Segesta, and Agrigento, monuments and houses in Trapani, mosaics in Palermo, and the Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria, in which the Maraini family lived in the 1950's. Other images show local people in small towns around Sicily and the Aeolian islands as well as landscape views from mount Etna and Taormina.
Biographical / Historical
Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, writer, mountaineer, and anthropologist born in Florence in 1912. In 1935 he married the painter Topazia Alliata and later became well-konwn for the accounts of his expeditions in Tibet. During the Second World War he lived in Japan, where he worked as a lecturer of Italian language in various cities. For two years he was imprisoned in the Nagoya concentration camp. Maraini travelled extensively in Japan, Central Asia, North Africa, and Italy, and he organized numerous photographic exhibitions in Europe and Japan. Many of his photos illustrate the books he published. He died at the age of 91 in 2004.
Arrangement
The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated to I Tatti as part of the Berenson photo archive.
Processed by
Spyros Koulouris
Geographic
Topical
Creator
- Maraini, Fosco, 1912-2004 (Person)
- Title
- Fosco Maraini photographs of Sicily: A Finding Aid
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Biblioteca Berenson
- Date
- 30 March 2021
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- ber00046
Repository Details
Part of the Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Repository
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