1st Edition
Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War
By Martina Caruso
Copyright 2016
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
Introduction: Situating Italian Humanist Photography1. Antifascist Photography under Fascism2. Photography, Power and Humiliation in the Second World War3. Christ Stopped at Eboli: An Anthropology of the South4. Humanist Photography and The 'Catholic' Family of ManFine (The End): La Dolce Vita and the Burst into TechnicolourBibliographyIndex
Biography
Martina Caruso is Associate Lecturer in Photography and Contemporary Media Cultures, University of the Arts, London, UK. She also co-directs the Giulio Turcato Archives in Rome, Italy.
