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€ 800 - 1.200
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€ 500
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At auction on Monday 18 May 2026 at 16:00
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Gelatin silver print, printed in 1970s/1980s
cm 61 x 50,6 | 24 x 19.9 in.
Signed in black felt pen with photographer's credit stamp on the verso
cm 61 x 50,6 | 24 x 19.9 in.
Signed in black felt pen with photographer's credit stamp on the verso
Enzo Sellerio (Palermo 1924 - 2012) born in a family of intellectuals, he graduated in Law and quit his university career to embrace in the early 1950s the career of photographer by publishing in the periodicals “Sicilia,” “Cinema Nuovo” and “Il Mondo” with images of neorealist taste thanks to which he made his first personal exhibitions. Reportages in the Swiss magazine “du” allowed him, in the first half of the 1960s, to work as a freelancer between Paris and New York for Vogue portraying important cultural personalities. A new and different interest in publishing led him to put photography aside and found, with his wife Elvira, Sellerio Edizioni, which published both art and fiction books.
Those who do not know photography are always a little surprised to discover that Enzo Sellerio was not only a great publisher but also an excellent photographer who is part of those authors who in the post-war period gave life to a real photographic school designed not so much and not only as a personal research, but above all to be published in magazines that in Italy in those years represented a great training ground and even an instrument of education and cultural struggle that moved parallel to cinema. In fact, these two shots shot in expressive black and white have a cinematic narrative tone. Poverty and wealth, everyday life and exceptionality, shy attitude and exhibited impudence confront each other in these two images that seem to dialogue with each other.
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