In Almost Every Picture #19

Erik Kessels and Petri Paselli

Publisher
KesselsKramer
Year
2024
ISBN
9789070478582
Specifications
Softcover
15.5 x 20 cm
112 pages
Colour

In Almost Every Picture is a series of books focusing on found amateur photographs with a sequenced narrative. In Italy, between 1945 and 1976, more than 12,000 women were married by proxy to partners who were unable to attend for reasons such as military service, imprisonment or travel restrictions. Mina from Bologna was one of them. In 1961, twenty-six-year-old Mina set out to marry Dario, who had moved to Eritrea to work as a veterinarian. Stubborn Mina decided that by the time she boarded a flight to Africa to join Dario she would already be called a wife, at least before the law. So she staged her wedding and Dario's best friend, Franco, played the part of the groom. A few days after her proxy wedding, Mina flew to Eritrea with her pompous, lacy white dress wrapped in a big plastic bag under her arm. She reunited with her real husband Dario and captured the awaited moment on colour film. Edited by Erik Kessels and Petri Paselli.

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