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amici dei musei
di Bernardo Tortorici da Raffadali
Manifestazione mussolini
Una storia per immagini
Risale ormai a dieci anni fa la sco- questa inedita raccolta di immagini dal nu-
Una comunità
perta fortunosa di una vastissi- mero impressionante è possibile riscoprire
allo specchio
- e ricostruire un mondo ormai scomparso,
attraverso
te, risalenti al secolo scorso, che una comunità che può solo rivivere ancora
gli scatti
riprendono in ogni suo aspetto la comunità nei ricordi di qualcuno avanti con gli anni.
di monsignor
di un piccolo paese siciliano della provincia L’autore delle immagini è un personaggio
di Messina, Tortorici.
d’eccezione; si tratta infatti di un monsi-
- gnore con una grande passione per l’arte
sima rilevanza sia da un punto di vista arti-
stico che storico-antropologico. Attraverso alla morte.
A story through
pictures
A community mirrored
in the pictures of
Franchina
Written by Bernardo Tortorici from
Raffadali
It is ten years now since they have life. Monsignor Calogero Franchina and stories of his homeland. His ac-
been discovering by chance a rich was born in Tortorici in 1876 and tivity as a photographer spans the
collection of inedited pictures, dating end of the nineteenth century up to
back to the last century, catching who moved, for theological reason, the half of the twentieth century. His
every aspect of a community from to late eighteenth century Paris, the work is of great importance because
a small country in the provinces of “ville lumière” rich in stimulus and he was able to grasp a thousand-
Messina, Tortorici.
artists, the same Paris that has pro-
duced photography only in the last society doomed, after the Second
importance both from an artistic decades.
World War, to completely disappear
and anthropological point of view. The great interest and passion for under the impact of industrial and
Through these countless inedited photography convinced the young consumer society.
photographs it is possible to redisco- clergyman to buy two cameras that Each photograph is a historical dover
and reconstruct an extinct world, he will be bringing with him once at cument useful for the reconstruction
a community alive only in the memo- home again.
and study of an identity not so far
ries of someone advanced in years. Thanks to these view cameras, he in time, being able to convey energy,
The author of the pictures is a sin- began catching the world standing pride and a sense of belonging to
in front of his curious and inquiring those who represent, today, the heirs
fond of photography throughout his eyes, immortalizing places, people of that extinct world, is to say we all.