Vito Fiorenza Explained

Vito Fiorenza (1927 – March 23, 2015) was a photographer born in New York.

Career

Fiorenza first visited Sicily in the late 1940s, then in the mid-1950s, Fiorenza and his wife traveled back to Italy; some of these photographs were reproduced in his self-published volume Sicilian Town.

In 1954 he won a Village Camera Club prize and in 1955 three of his Sicilian scenes were included in Edward Steichen’s blockbuster The Family of Man exhibition, one of them, a group portrait of a Sicilian family, was grouped with others in the central display, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which subsequently toured the world.^{[1] [2]}

His Sicilian photographs^[3] were shown again in 1967 at the Lincoln Center as part of the Virtuosi di Roma-Vivaldi Festival.

Fiorenza died after a short illness on March 23, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Eric J. Sandeen, Picturing an Exhibition: "The Family of Man" and 1950s America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995
2. Hurm, Gerd, 1958–, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris,
3. Popular Photography, December 1956, Vol. 39, No. 6