Ferdinando Scianna is an Italian photographer and photojournalist born in 1943 in Bagheria, Sicily. Scianna won the Prix Nadar award in 1966 and became a full member of the photography agency Magnum Photos in 1989. He has authored numerous photography books documenting his career spanning fashion, politics, literature and photography.

2. Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria, 4 luglio 1943) è
un fotografo e fotoreporter italiano.

38. Ferdinando Scianna (4 July 1943) is an
Italian photographer. Scianna won the Prix
Nadar in 1966 and became a full member
of Magnum Photos in 1989. He has produced
numerous books.
Scianna took up photography while studying
literature, philosophy and art history at
the University of Palermo in the 1960s. He moved
to Milan in 1966 and started working as a
photographer for L'Europeo in 1967, becoming a
journalist there in 1973. Scianna wrote on politics
for Le Monde diplomatique and on literature and
photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire. He first
joined Magnum Photos in 1982, becoming a full
member in 1989.
He took up fashion photography in the late
1980s. His first work, in 1987, was to
photograph Marpessa Hennink for Dolce &
Gabbana's advertising campaign for their
Fall/Winter collection, clothing which was inspired
by Sicily.

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