Looters, Photographers, and Thieves : Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Working toward an analysis of the influence of photography on the construction of an Italian "type" to serve the mandates of the new nation in the 1860s, this book engages the work of writers and photographers who have addressed or participated in this venture. From Giovanni Verga and Ital...

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Main Author: Verdicchio, Pasquale
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The raw and the cooked-up: opening thoughts on bodies -- Photography as literary art -- Photographers, looters, and thieves: stolen states of the image/nation -- Giovanni Verga: photography and verismo -- Imaging America: the photography of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis -- Imaginative contradictions: Von Gloeden's disruptive bodies of representation -- Tina Modotti: life through the ground-glass. 
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