| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledments; Introduction: Situating Italian Humanist Photography; What is humanism?; Chapter 1 Antifascist Photography under Fascism; Forging a "New" Peasant at the Istituto LUCE and Other Fascist organizations; Rural kitsch, fashion, and the Nazi-Fascist alliance; The Fascist avant-garde and the international photographic context; Critical Fascists and the concept of the "Primitive"; Leo Longanesi, D'Annunziano; Non-Fascist cultures and "Primitive" rituals; Conclusion |
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Chapter 2 Photography, Power, and Humiliation in the Second World WarThe erotics of the Uomo Nuovo; The absent war in vernacular photography; Censorship and the Ethiopian War; The intellectual war correspondent; Occhio Quadrato and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Allies, Partisans, and cameras; Constructing and reconstructing the Resistance; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Christ Stopped at Eboli: An Anthropology of the South; The Madonna and Roosevelt; The Politics of Miseria and the Communist Debate; Sex, Magic, and Anthropology; Photographers Marginalized; For a Mediterranean Light; Whose South? |
| Summary |
Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and powerful, Italian social documentary photography from the 1930s to the 1960s is a rich source of cultural history, reflecting a time of dramatic change. This book shows, through a wide range of images (some published for the first time) that to fully understand the photography of this period we must take a more expansive view than scholars have applied to date, considering issues of propaganda, aesthetics, religion, national identity and international influences. By setting Italian photography against a backdrop of social documentary and giving it a distinctive place in the global history of photography, this exciting volume of original research is of interest to art historians and scholars of Italian and visual culture studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Photography -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Photography, Artistic -- 20th century
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Humanism in art.
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Photographic reportage.
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European history.
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900.
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Photography & photographs.
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
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Humanism in art
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Photography
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Photography, Artistic
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History of art.
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Photojournalism.
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European history.
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Italy.
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20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
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Photography & photographs.
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Art and Design.
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Italy
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474246941 |
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147424694X |
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1474246966 |
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9781474246965 |
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1000213129 |
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9781000213126 |
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1003103561 |
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9781003103561 |
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1000211460 |
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9781000211467 |
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