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Fosco Maraini
Fosco Maraini | |
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Fosco Maraini (on the left) | |
| Born | (1912-11-15)15 November 1912 Florence, Italy |
| Died | 8 June 2004(2004-06-08) (aged 91) Florence, Italy |
| Known for | Metasemantic poetry |
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| Children | 3, including Dacia Maraini |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ethnology of Tibet and Japan |
Fosco Maraini (Italian:[ˈfoskomaraˈiːni,ˈfɔs-];[1][2] 15 November 1912 – 8 June 2004) was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.
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[edit]He was born in Florence from the Italian sculptor Antonio Maraini (1886–1963) and Cornelia Edith "Yoï" Crosse also known as Yoï Crosse-Pawlowska (1877–1944), a model and writer of English and Polish descent who was born in Tállya, Hungary. As a photographer, Fosco Maraini is perhaps best known for his work in Tibet and Japan. The visual record Maraini captured in images of Tibet and on the Ainu people of Hokkaidō has gained significance as historical documentation of two disappearing cultures. His work was recognized with a 2002 award from the Phot
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Fosco Maraini
Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, writer, mountaineer, and anthropologist born in Florence in 1912. In 1935 he married the painter Topazia Alliata and later became well-known for the accounts of his expeditions in Tibet. During the Second World War he lived in Japan, where he worked as a lecturer of Italian language in various cities. For two years he was imprisoned in the Nagoya concentration camp. Maraini travelled extensively in Japan, Central Asia, North Africa, and Italy, and he organized numerous photographic exhibitions in Europe and Japan. Many of his photos illustrate the books he published. He died at the age of 91 in 2004.
The collection includes 26 photographs taken by Fosco Maraini in Sicily between 1950 and 1952. These include views of various places such as antiquities in Selinunte, Segesta, and Agrigento, monuments and houses in Trapani, mosaics in Palermo, and the Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria, in which the Maraini family lived in the 1950's. Other images show local people in small towns around Sicily and the Aeolian islands as well as landscape views from mount Etna and Taormina.