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SCIANNA, Ferdinando (Bagheria, 1943)Kami. Minatori sulle Ande boliviane
Palermo - Milano, L'Immagine Editrice 1988 - Prima edizione (First Edition)
62 fotografie in bianco e nero a piena e doppia pagina e uno scritto di Ferdinando Scianna. Un testo di Aldo Santini
4to, pp. 140 Rilegato, custodia (hard cover, slip-case) Lievi abrasioni della carta lungo il dorso (Very slight signs of wear along the back spine) Molto buono (Very Good)[Rif. Ritchin Fred & Naggar Carole, Magnum Photobook. The Catalogue Raisonné. Phaidon, 2016]
One of Ferdinando Scianna's finest books.
From Scianna's text: "The camp where these miners live is named Kami, after the mountain in the Bolivian Andes cordillera on whose crumbly flanks, at an altitude of over 3800 meters, it is precariously clinging [...] The existence of the miners, here in Kami, as in the other mines, yesterday, when they were still a great economic reality, as today that they are closing almost all of them, is a living by dying. When hunger, fatigue, misfortune, silicosis, tuberculosis do not kill them, it is the rifles of the soldiers at the first sign of rebellion sent to slaughter them."
€350