Antonella Russo

Italian Neorealist Photography (eBook, ePUB)

Its Legacy and Aftermath

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Bresson, and Paul Strand in Neorealist Italy. The text includes an account the formation and proliferation of Italian photographic associations and their role in institutionalizing and promoting Italian photography, their link to British and other European photographic societies, and the subsequent decline of Neorealism. It also considers the inception of non-objective photography that thrived soon after the war, in concurrence with the circulation of Neorealism, thus debunking the myth identifying all Italian postwar photography with the Neorealist image.

This book will be particularly useful for scholars and students in the history and theory of photography, and Italian history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000213546
• Artikelnr.: 62883229

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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