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Luciano Morpurgo was one of the most important Italian photographers of the twentieth century. Born in Split, Dalmatia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), into a prosperous commercial family, he was educated in Venice. While studying there, he became interested in photography. In 1915, he moved permanently to Rome, where he eventually founded a graphic arts company that produced postcards of Italy. Photographs from his 1927 journey to Palestine and Trans-Jordan captured the lives of ordinary Jews, “simple folk” from communities that often attracted little attention.
