SCIANNA, Ferdinando (Bagheria, 1943)Kami. Minatori sulle Ande boliviane

Dedica autografa dell'Autore ad un fotografo italiano (Inscribed and signed by the Author to an Italian photographer)

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 [...] There, that is my certainly not complete and exhaustive description of the reality of Kami as I saw it.  This text is only meant to be a brief caption for the pictures in the book. On my last trip to Kami I displayed some of these photographs by sticking them on panels on the wall of the hospital. All the people in the camp came to see them. They pointed them out to each other laughing. Many asked me for a copy. Here, I hope that they recognized themselves in these photographs as through these photographs I tried to recognize myself in them."

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