“I never thought of myself as an artist, and I am still astonished to enter into a museum and see my work,” Ms. Battaglia said in the 2017 Times interview.
She first received international recognition in 1985, when she received the W. Eugene Smith Grant for humanistic photography, given by the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund in New York.
In more recent years Ms. Battaglia helped create Palermo’s first museum dedicated to photography, the Centro Internazionale della Fotografia, which opened in 2017.
On Friday, Mayor Orlando announced that the center would be renamed in her honor, as would a street in a Palermo cultural center.
A television mini-series about her life, “Just for Passion: Letizia Battaglia, Photographer,” will be broadcast in Italy next month. “She had a very adventurous life,” the director, Roberto Andò, said in a telephone interview. “I am just sorry that I wasn’t able to show it to her.”
Besides her daughter Patrizia, she is survived by two other daughters, Cinzia Stagnitta and Shobha Battaglia, who is also a photographer; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Ms. Stagnitta said in a telephone interview that her mother had continued to work despite difficulties walking. In the week before her death Ms. Battaglia participated in a workshop in central Italy, and earlier this year she photographed a young Italian singer for a weekly magazine.
“She was still working, earning her daily bread,” Ms. Stagnitta said.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/world/europe/letizia-battaglia-dead.html
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