'Elena', by day rude crane operator at Italsider, red stiletto heels at night in Piazzetta del Fregoso. 'La Morena', during the day Mario the greengrocer, at night undecided whether to lure customers or become a nun. 'Dalida' instead sold candy during the day, at night she dreamed of the scalpel to finally marry her man.
Then 'the Gitana', with a physique already a bit undone, was said to have been the lover of De Pisis, who wanted at all costs to end up on the cover, and succeeded, laughing and shirtless.
None of them is there anymore, flashes of their lives remain in the most beautiful and cursed photographic book of the seventies, The transvestites of Lisetta Carmi.
Fifty years after the publication of "I travestiti" (Rome, Essedi, 1972) and a few months after the author's death, the unpublished color photos of one of the most intense and important reportages in the history of photography, found in her archive in 2017, appear in a volume strongly desired by the photographer. These images make up a large and complete legacy that allows a new reading of Carmi's long work with the transvestite community of Genoa.
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