Vito Fiorenza (1927 – March 23, 2015) was a photographer born in New York.
Career
Fiorenza first visited Sicily in the late 1940s, then in the mid-1950s, Fiorenza and his wife traveled back to Italy; some of these photographs were reproduced in his self-published volume Sicilian Town.
In 1954 he won a Village Camera Club prize and in 1955 three of his Sicilian scenes were included in Edward Steichen’s blockbuster The Family of Man exhibition, one of them, a group portrait of a Sicilian family, was grouped with others in the central display, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which subsequently toured the world.
His Sicilian photographs were shown again in 1967 at the Lincoln Center as part of the Virtuosi di Roma-Vivaldi Festival.
Fiorenza died after a short illness on March 23, 2015.
References
- Fiorenza, Vito (2002), Sicilian town, V. Fiorenza, retrieved June 8, 2018
- Eric J. Sandeen, Picturing an Exhibition: "The Family of Man" and 1950s America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995
- Hurm, Gerd, 1958–, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3
- Caruso, Martina (2016), Italian humanist photography from fascism to the Cold War, London Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-4742-4693-4
- Popular Photography, December 1956, Vol. 39, No. 6
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