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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2024.
Briganti della Sicilia (Bandits of Sicily)
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2024.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2024.

Briganti della Sicilia (Bandits of Sicily)

Dateca. 1877
MediumAlbumen print
Dimensions10 × 7 1/2 in. (25.4 × 19.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2023.22
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DescriptionThis is a photomontage of 23 named “Briganti,” or brigands, of Sicily created circa 1877 by the photographer Enrico Seffer. The individual photographs were probably originally in the carte-de-visite format, common in the 1860s and 1870s.

The names of the criminals are included by each image: Luigi Tortomasi, Salvatore Salpietra, Gaudenzio Plaio, Giuseppe Lozito, Pasquale Messina, Antonio Giglio, Salvatore Alfano, Giuseppe Amorelli, Turrisi, Pagano La Marca, and Sebastiano Torrella.

One of the subjects (Giuseppe Nobile) was photographed postmortem, presumably after he was killed by members of law enforcement.

Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2017.
Scene from The Gospel of St. Matthew
Guiseppe Galli Bibiena
1740
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