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

What do we 'see' when we think of Italy? How is our sense of that country, its people and culture formed, what conditions it? Looters, Photographers, and Thieves suggests that our visualization and relationship to a place like Italy is the result of a long and complex series of constructed images that have their origins in the ideology of nation building.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. The Raw and the Cooked-Up Chapter 4 2. Photography as Literary Art Chapter 5 3. Photographers, Looters, and Thieves: Stolen States of the Image/nation Chapter 6 4. Giovanni Verga: Photography and Verismo Chapter 7 5. Imagining America: The Photography of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis Chapter 8 6. Imaginative Contradictions: Von Gloeden's Disruptive Bodies of Representation Chapter 9 7. Tina Modotti: Life through the Ground-glass Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index

About the author

By Pasquale Verdicchio

Summary

What do we "see" when we think of Italy? How is our sense of that country, its people and culture formed, what conditions it? Looters, Photographers, and Thieves suggests that our visualization and relationship to a place like Italy is the result of a long and complex series of constructed images that have their origins in the ideology of nation building.

Product details

• Authors: Pasquale Verdicchio
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611470185
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-018-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV