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In Light of Rome
This comprehensive study of Rome’s contribution to the early history of photography traces the medium’s rise from a fledgling science to a dynamic form of artistic expression that forever changed the way we perceive the Eternal City. The authors examine the diverse transnational group of photographers who thrived in the cosmopolitan art center of Rome—and the pivotal role they played in the refinement and technical development of the nascent medium in the nineteenth century. The book ranges from the earliest pioneers—the French daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and the Welsh calotypist Calvert Richard Jones—to the work of the Roman School of Photography and its su...
Portraits in Prisons
Prisons are narrated through the faces of prisoners in daily life, their punishment and solitary confinement.
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape explores the impact of photography at a pivotal moment in Italian architecture and culture, focusing on the period between 1910 and the mid-1970s. The book analyzes architectural photographs taken by Italian cultural figures who helped transform the Italian landscape into what we know today. This study charts the oscillation of Italians’ ideas about what progress signified. For example, the book demonstrates that for writers and artists familiar with ancient ideas about civilization in 1910, the Roman countryside exemplified the contradictions inherent in primitivism. On the one hand, their photographs praised the region’s primo...
The Emotions of Internationalism
"By examining a broad range of individuals and institutions engaged in international cooperation in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, this book explains how internationalists constructed and used emotions to attain their goals. It undertakes a journey through the most diverse terrains and venues, from the international art exhibitions and congresses organized by the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (also known as UIAA, or the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation), to the summer camps and schools run by transnational bodies such as the League for Open-Air Education, to the international sanatoria for students, workers, and soldiers healing from tuberculosis in ...
Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War
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.
Photography and Italy
In this beautifully illustrated book Maria Antonella Pelizzari traces the history of photography in Italy from its beginnings to the present as she guides us through the history of Italy and its ancient sites and Renaissance landmarks. Pelizzari specifically considers the role of photography in the formation of Italian national identity during times of political struggle, such as the lead up to Unification in 1860, and later in the nationalist wars of Mussolini’s regime. While many Italians and foreigners— such as Fratelli Alinari or Carlo Ponti, John Ruskin or Kit Talbot—focused their lenses on architectural masterpieces, others documented the changing times and political heroes, crea...
Bernhard Rudofsky
Known for his bestselling books, "Architecture without Architects”, "Streets for People”, and "The Prodigious Builders”, Bernard Rudofsky (1905–1988) was also a prolific architect, theoretician, and designer. His influence in the field of design – and outside it, with his insistence that we look at the diverse forms of human habitation around the world – were enormous. Designer of several landmark exhibitions, artistic and editorial director of various architecture and design journals such as "Domus”, and prolific author, Rudofsky's life and work are chronicled in this first monograph, which includes previously unpublished material and gives a comprehensive and serious understanding of this central figure in twentieth-century design.
Il restauro della fotografia
Per la prima volta in Italia un numero ampio di restauratori e studiosi della fotografia affrontano la cultura materiale e gli aspetti di prevenzione, conservazione e restauro dei maggiori processi fotografici e cinematografici, dai dagherrotipi alle tecniche argentiche, da quelle non argentiche alle stampe digitali. Le fasi di restauro conservativo sono argomentate in modo analitico, con l’intento di proporre una base metodologica e critica che serva ad affrontare il restauro dei beni fotografici e cinematografici, riconosciuti in Italia come beni culturali solo all’affacciarsi del XXI secolo. Indice: Introduzione Il restauro tra informazione materiale e immateriale: premesse metodologi...
L'intellettuale mal temperato
Questo volume prende origine dalla giornata di studi in onore di Paolo Fossati, ospitata alla Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino nel novembre 2010. Alle relazioni e alle testimonianze, non ancora pubblicate, presentate in occasione di quella giornata, vengono accostati nuovi contributi con l'intento di fornire un ritratto il più sfaccettato possibile di un intellettuale complesso, generoso e difficile, che ha saputo indicare nuove vie alla Storia dell'arte e all'arte editoriale ed è riuscito a instaurare una forte empatia con gli artisti, senza perdere di vista i doveri del suo ruolo di critico. Le sue proposte, come si evince da alcuni testi qui contenuti, non smetto...
Italian Neorealist Photography
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 industrialization of photographic magazines. This volume examines the ethno(photo)graphic missions of Ernesto De Martino in the deep South of Italy, the key role played by the Neorealist writer and painter Carlo Levi as "ambassador of international photography", and the journeys of David Seymour, Henry Cartier Bre...
