Italian humanist photography from fascism to the Cold War. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martina Caruso.
• Authors: Caruso, Martina
• 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 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? ConclusionChapter 4 Humanist Photography and The "Catholic" Family of Man; Searching for an "Italian Photography" from The Family of Man to What is Man?; The uncertain internationalization of Italian Humanist Photography; "A bit sweet, a bit ironic, a bit pathetic": the Italian gaze in pannunzio's Il Mondo; Can Catholic photographers also be humanist?; Deliver us from evil: Pathos in the work of Mario Giacomelli; Gli ultimi in the suburbs of Milan; Conclusion; FINE ("THE END"): La Dolce Vita and the Burst into Technicolor; Epigraph; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 770/.945; Photographic reportage; Photography -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Photography, Artistic -- 20th century; Humanism in art; Humanism in art; Photography; Photography, Artistic; COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Photography; PHOTOGRAPHY / Reference; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Imaging Systems; European history; History of art & design styles: from c 1900; Photography -- General; Photography -- History; Photography -- Photojournalism; History -- Europe -- Italy; Art -- History -- Contemporary (1945-); Photography & photographs; Italy; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474246941
• Related ISBNs: 147424694X; 9781474246934; 1474246931; 9781474246965
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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