Death
Photograph
Death
Mafia Threatened at Last
1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/16 × 6 5/16 in. (23.7 × 16 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0454
Inscriptions Inscribed in orange grease pencil RC: #8
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Mafia) 1/63 8) DEATH: "Vendetta" and "omerta" (vengeance and \ silence) are the Mafia's two main commandments. The Mafioso \ who does not observe them meets death. Here, the widow of \ Domenico La Fata, who had worked in the fruit market extor- \ tion racket, follows her husband to his grave in Palermo. \ Credit: Sergio Larrain © 1963 MAGNUM Photos
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Mafia) 1/63 8) DEATH: "Vendetta" and "omerta" (vengeance and \ silence) are the Mafia's two main commandments. The Mafioso \ who does not observe them meets death. Here, the widow of \ Domenico La Fata, who had worked in the fruit market extor- \ tion racket, follows her husband to his grave in Palermo. \ Credit: Sergio Larrain © 1963 MAGNUM Photos
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