Davide Sorrenti's mother reflects on her late son, whose photography she's anthologized in a new book.
Davide Sorrenti, the New York photographer who died in 1997, at age 20, was, says his friend Lola Schnabel, “living in truth.” Now his mother, photographer Francesca Sorrenti, with London’s Idea Books, is publishinga retrospective of her son’s work that more than supports Schnabel’s claim. Naturalistic, authentic, and compelling, the images of Frankie Rayder, Milla Jovovich, Carolyn Murphy, and his girlfriendmagazines, reflect the ’90s New York Sorrenti was living in.
[The book is] bittersweet, that’s the best way to describe it: bittersweet. The documentary, the exhibition, and now the book...they are keeping him alive. Davide is eternally 20. He was 19 and a half when he passed, but it’s odd to say that, so I always say he was 20.When I design a book, I always think [about] what the person reading it would like to see. In Davide’s case we are talking about memory, about photography, about a kid who projected his life through his images.
Maybe at this point it would be useful to hear a little about how he came to photography, because you are this very creative force, and you’ve raised kids who are just as creative. Can you give me some family history? Emotion comes up a lot in the recollections and impressions of his friends and collaborators who are in the book, that his work was so much a reflection of the life he lived.
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