Mirella Ricciardi
Mirella Ricciardi (born July 14, 1931 in Kenya , East Africa ) is an Italian photographer and book author.
Life
Ricciardi's father was Italian, her mother French and a sculptor. She grew up on the edge of Lake Naivasha in Kenya. She did an apprenticeship with the fashion photographer Harry Meerson in Paris . At 25, she married the Italian adventurer Lorenzo Ricciardi , who hired her to work as a photographer for the stills for a film he was currently shooting in East Africa.
In the following years Ricciardi lived in different countries in Africa, photographed and published her first illustrated book Vanishing Africa in 1971 , which was an immediate success. Four more photo volumes followed until today (2014).
The Ricciardi couple had two daughters. The eldest daughter died of cancer at the age of 36. The two now share a life between the house in the London district of Fulham and the one in Italy.
Publications
- Vanishing Africa , revised edition 1974, Collins, London, ISBN 0-00-211876-9 .
- Vanishing Amazon , Abrams, New York 1991 ISBN 0-8109-3915-0 .
- African Saga , Collins, London 1981, ISBN 0-00-216191-5 .
- with Lorenzo Ricciardi: African Rainbow: Across Africa by Boat , Ebury Press, London 1989, ISBN 0-85223-746-4 .
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African Visions The Diary of an African Photographer , Cassell & Co, London 2000, ISBN 0-304354015 .
- German: My Africa. Memories of a mysterious continent , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-453-16872-0 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ricciardi, Mirella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenya |