Newspaper's Last Stand: Last025

Scartoni reads a newspaper surrounded by the small toys and trinkets that news sellers like him sell in increasing number in order to stay in business. Scartoni jokes, “first I worked in an “edicola” (newsstand), and now I just sell the “ridicola” (ridiculous), playing on the similar sounds of the words for newsstand and ridiculous in Italian. Scartoni is reading an insert in the Corriere della Sera called, “I Fell In Love With A Bicycle,” describing recommended bicycle routes around Italy. At right, Scartoni has circled a page from the article and taped it to the door of the newsstand. At left, stands Scartoni’s bicycle that he rides several kilometers to and from the newsstand each day.

Scartoni reads a newspaper surrounded by the small toys and trinkets that news sellers like him sell in increasing number in order to stay in business. Scartoni jokes, “first I worked in an “edicola” (newsstand), and now I just sell the “ridicola” (ridiculous), playing on the similar sounds of the words for newsstand and ridiculous in Italian.  

Scartoni is reading an insert in the Corriere della Sera called, “I Fell In Love With A Bicycle,” describing recommended bicycle routes around Italy. At right, Scartoni has circled a page from the article and taped it to the door of the newsstand. At left, stands Scartoni’s bicycle that he rides several kilometers to and from the newsstand each day.