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

Career

Fiorenza first visited

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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

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’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. His Sicilian photographsPopular Photography, December 1956, Vol. 39, No. 6 were shown again in 1967 at the

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as part of the Virtuosi di Roma-Vivaldi Festival. Fiorenza died after a short illness on March 23, 2015.

References

American photojournalists 1927 births 2015 deaths {{US-photographer-stub