Farewell to Lisetta Carmi, photography as a social denunciation

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 05 - Lisetta Carmi, a great photographer of the last, talented pianist and founder in 1979 of the Ashram Bhole Babaproprio in the center of Puglia, died at the age of 98 in Cisternino.

Born in Genoa in 1924, of Jewish origin, Carmi abandoned a promising career as a musician in 1960 to devote herself to photography and civil reportage.

   Among his best known works Italsider of 1962, Genova Porto of 1964 and Travestiti of 1972. He has worked for the theater and signed portraits of artists and cultural personalities from CharlesAznavour to Edoardo Sanguineti from Leonardo Sciascia to CarmeloBene, Claudio Abbado, Ezra Pound.

In 1976, the meeting with the Indian master Babaji marks a new turning point in his life that leads her to leave photography and devote herself to spreading the teachings of her master with the Bhole Babaf ashram founded in 1979 in Cisternino.

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