Letizia Battaglia at Jeu de Paume exhibition catalog
The exhibition catalog for Letizia Battaglia, created for her retrospective at Jeu de Paume, was designed by Line Celo. The layout reflects Battaglia’s direct and uncompromising documentary style, known for its powerful images of Sicilian life and the Mafia.
The design uses both the proportional and monospaced versions of 00 Wagram, a serif typeface by D0UBLE ZER0. The proportional version ensures clarity and legibility for body text, while the monospace version introduces a typewriter-like feel, adding a tactile, journalistic quality that aligns with the raw, reportage nature of Battaglia’s work.
More info from Jeu de Paume’s website (translated from the French):
As part of its season of historical and heritage exhibitions, the Château de Tours presents a major new exhibition dedicated to Letizia Battaglia, the great Italian photographer and photojournalist (1935–2022), famous for her work on the mafia in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.
Comprising four essays – by Walter Guadagnini (Camera), Monica Poggi (Camera), Melissa Harris (Aperture), and Marta Sollima (Letizia Battaglia’s granddaughter) – the four sections illustrate her fight against the Mafia as much as her work on the female body (which, incidentally, dovetails with her fight against the Mafia, as women represented for her the hope of a better society).
An exhibition co-organized with CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin
The book is available from Dario Cimorelli Editore in two bilingual editions, French/English (shown) and Italian/English.
