1st Edition

Italian Neorealist Photography Its Legacy and Aftermath

By Antonella Russo Copyright 2022
218 Pages 9 Color & 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 9 Color & 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 9 Color & 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers an analysis of the socio-historical conditions of the rise of postwar Italian photography, considers its practices, and outlines its destiny. Antonella Russo provides an incisive examination of Neorealist photography, delineates its periodization, traces its instances and its progressive popularization and subsequent co-optation that occurred with the advent of the... Read more
Introduction;  1. The Question about Neorealist Photography;  2. Neorealist Literary Photographic Culture;  3. Beyond Eboli. The Etno(photo)graphy turn in Neorealism;  4. Post-Neorealist Photography

Biography

Antonella Russo is a photography historian and curator and former professor of history of photography at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.