Lisetta Carmi: Identities review – radical photography reveals Italy’s outsiders

Charlotte Jansen, The Guardian , September 20, 2023
Estorick Collection, London
Carmi’s 1960s photos of marginalised people, from sex workers to stevedores, have a piercing humanity
She was an accomplished concert pianist who later became a devoted yogi, but Lisetta Carmi is best known for the 18 years she spent taking photographs. Her carefully observed, quietly sensational pictures had a subtle power to them: they reckoned with Italy’s traditional, patriarchal society.
 
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