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8/20/01

PHOTO EXHIBITION BEGINS U.S. TOUR AT SLU GALLERY

CANTON - The exhibition "Letizia Battaglia: Passion, Justice, 
Freedom - Photographs of Sicily" will make its U.S. debut at the 
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, beginning 
Monday, August 27, and continuing though October 6.
	Organized by Aperture Foundation in New York, the exhibition 
premiered at Visa pour l'image in Perpignan, France, before traveling 
to Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes di Napoli in Italy and then 
to Palermo, Sicily, where it was presented at Galleria Bianca at the 
Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, organized as part of the Novecento Festiva 
and in conjunction with a United Nations conference on transnational crime. 
The show also traveled to Huis Marseille in the Netherlands. The United 
States tour opens at St. Lawrence University before traveling to Aperture's 
Burden Gallery in New York City.
	The exhibition features 56 black-and-white prints with text panels 
in Italian and English. Battaglia's work demonstrates photography's power 
to serve as both a weapon and a voice for the people. After years of risking 
her own life to fight for her troubled city of Palermo - as photographer, 
publisher, deputy councilwoman, ecological activist, defender of women's 
rights, defender of human rights - she continues her battle with passion, 
intelligence and vision. 
	In her work, Battaglia juxtaposes candid pictures of the everyday 
joy, suffering and vitality of her fellow Sicilians with images depicting 
the effects of Mafia predators who for so long controlled much of the island's 
political and economic life.
	Founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont 
and Nancy Newhall, and Minor White, among others, Aperture is a not-for-profit 
public foundation devoted to photography and related visual arts. Programs 
include a quarterly magazine, book publishing, traveling exhibitions, the Paul 
Strand Archive and research.  Aperture will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.
	Also in the Brush Gallery from August 27 through October 6 is an 
exhibition titled "Culture Hero: A Fanzine of Stars of the Super World," 
featuring issues of Culture Hero, a newsprint tabloid published from 1969 to 
1970.
	The Brush Gallery welcomes individual and group tours of exhibitions. For 
more information, call the gallery at (315) 229-5174 or visit its Web site at 
web.stlawu.edu/gallery

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