Ferdinando Scianna (1943- present, Italian)

Ferdinando Scianna (1943- present, Italian) was born in Bagheria, Sicily and is a photographer who became interested in photography while studying at the University of Palermo in the 1960’s. When he moved to Milan in 1966, he began working as a photographer at L’Europeo and in the same year he won the Prix Nadar. He eventually became a journalist and has written many articlesl. In the late 1980’s he began working in fashion photography with Dolce & Gabbana.

Scianna became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1989 following in the footsteps of his mentor Henri Carter-Bresson.

Obviously a cat lover, Scianna has candidly captured many cats, some his own, but mostly those in natural environments.

He is quoted as saying: “My job is to photograph, and photographs don’t enable to build metaphors. Photographs show. They don’t demonstrate.”

1964 ITALY, Sicily,Isnello Cat in a poor house, Ferdinando Scianna

Cat in a poor house, 1964
Sicily, Italy

Cat, 1976

Man with Cats, 1981

1982 Cat in Flowers, Ferdinando Scianna Paris

Cat in Flowers, 1982, Paris

Jumping Cat, 1984, Albania

1984 Venice the cat on the roof, Ferdinando Scianna

The Cat on the Roof, Venice, 1984

1988, Black Cat and Girl, Ferdinando Scianna

Black Cat and Girl, 1988, Spain

Cat, Aswan Egypt, 1989

Black Cat, 1977 Paris

Black Cat, 1984

Boy and Kitten, Ferdinando Scianna 1983a

Boy and Kitten, Rome, 1983

Boy and Kitten, Rome, Ferdinando Scianna

Boy and Kitten, Rome, 1983

Cat and Horse, 1982

Cat and Kittens, Ferdinando Scianna Sicily 1983

Cat and Kittens, Sicily 1983

Cat Climbing a Window, Ferdinando Scianna, 1984

Cat Climbing a Window, 1984, Venice

Cat in a Barn, 1994

Cat in a Basket, Ferdinando Scianna

Cat in a Courtyard Ferdinando Scianna 1984

Cat in a Courtyard, 1984

Cat in a Window, 2002

Cat in Frame

Cat in Old Door, Ferdinando Scianna 1962

Cat in Old Door, 1962

Cat in Window, 1995

Cat on a Carpet, New York, 1985

Cat on a Roof, 1982 Milan

Cat on Chair, 1976

Cat who wanted to be a Dog, 1977

Cats in a Kitchen, Ferdinando Scianna 1980

Cats in a Kitchen, 1980

Climbing Cat, 1993

Cats, F Scianna, 1972 Sicily, Bagheria, Villa Palagonia

Cats, 1972 Sicily, Bagheria, Villa Palagonia

Ferdinando Scianna 1984 cat behind screen

Cat Behind the Screen, 1984

Italian Writer Raffaele LA CAPRIA with Cat, 1988

Black Cat, 2004

Black and White Cat, 1983

Cat on Stairs Sicily

Sofia and the Cat 2006

Cat 1983 Italy

Cat near the River

Ferdinando Scianna, FRANCE, Paris. HCB's cat.

HCB’s Cat, Paris

Cat in Polish Village 1972

Cats Looking Down from a Window 1986

Two Cats 1983

Girl with Cat

Emilia Romagna portrait of a woman living with her cats

Cat wrapped in a piece of paper

Carnevale Ambrosiano

Jorge Luis Borges y gato, foto de Ferdinando Scianna

Jorge Luis Borges and Cat

Jumping Cat

Little cats in Alberobello. 1990

Lombardy dinner time

Prowling Cat, Greece, 1999

Stretching Cat, 1989

Two Cats, 2009

Ugo the Cat, Andalucia, Spain, 2007

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