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Letizia Battaglia
La bambina con il pallone, Cala Palermo, 1980
"La bambina con il pallone, quartiere La Cala, Palermo", 1980. © Archivio Letizia Battaglia.
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Introduction
Universally recognized as the photographer who documented the mafia wars in Sicily in the 1970s and 1980s with courage and ruthless realism, Battaglia simultaneously possessed a profoundly poetic and humanistic sensitivity. This particular work serves as a bridge between raw social documentation and intimate psychological investigation.
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