About the Author:
Thomas Roma, a two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, both in New York. He is the author of Show & Tell (powerHouse Books 2002), Enduring Justice (powerHouse Books, 2001); Sanctuary, Higher Ground, Sunset Park; Found In Brooklyn; and Come Sunday. Director of Photography at Columbia University, Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son Giancarlo.; Sandra S. Phillips, (Introduction), Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 1987, has a Ph.D. in Art History from The City University of New York. Her many exhibitions and publications including Crossing The Frontier: Photographs Of The Developing West, 1849 To The Present; Dorothea Lange: American Photographs; Police Pictures; Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog; and Ansel Adams at 100.; Anna Roma (Afterword) has been married to Thomas Roma for fifteen years.
From Publishers Weekly:
A Brooklyn-born photographer, Roma set out in 1982 on a Guggenheim Fellowship to explore his ancestral Sicily, which he captures here in evocative, black-and-white photographs. In one image, a young woman cradles her baby on a sun-faded tile balcony; beside her are potted plants and a washer and dryer. Roma (Found in Brooklyn; co-author of Show & Tell) shows a countryside that could very well belong to another era: a young man hovers over a newborn goat on dry, rocky soil; a young shirtless boy stands in the shade, holding a baby goat. In one of the many landscape photos, a white slip hangs on a clothesline; next to it a sign reads "Panificio" and points to the distant barren mountains. Roma's photos reveal Sicily's harsh beauty; in many of them the bright sunshine is barely contained.
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