A 30year survey on the photography of this fearless Italian chronicler of the Mafia and more as profiled in the acclaimed 2019 documentary Shooting the MafiaOver 300 newly published works by Letizia Battaglia born 1935 one of Italys most celebrated photographers are collected in this major new survey spanning the entirety of her 30year photographic career. In photographs and prints from Battaglias own archive the book offers a comprehensive review of her works civically engaged model for photography typified by her iconic depictions of political protests and Mafia killings in her native Palermo in Sicily taken while Battaglia was employed as photography director at the leftist daily newspaper LOra.Including portraits of subjects such as Pier Paolo Pasolini the mob boss Leoluca Bagarella and the Sicilian politician Piersanti Mattarella assassinated by the Mafia the photographs in this collection showcase Battaglias attention to the most decisive events in Italy both political and cultural along with nonnewsworthy records of the daily lives of people in Palermo.