Title & Author:

Stillness in motion : Italy, photography, and the meanings of modernity / edited by Sarah Patricia Hill and Giuliana Minghelli.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xi, 372 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Sarah Patricia Hill and Giuliana Minghelli -- Part one: National beginnings and modernist fears -- Photography and the construction of Italian national identity / Roberta Valtorta, with Sarah Patricia Hill and Giuliana Minghelli -- Local colour and the grey aura of modernity: photography, literature, and the social sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy / Maria Grazia Lolla -- Eternal speed/omnipresent immobility: futurism and photography / Guiliana Minghelli -- Part two: Modern memory objects: social histories of the photograph -- The peripatetic portrait: exchange and performance in migration photographs at the turn of the nineteenth century / Giorgia Alù -- Presente! The latent memory of Italy's great war in its photographic portraits / Luca Cottini -- Part three: Photography and the acceleration of modernity: reality-commodity-violence -- Italian neo-realism between cinema and photography / Barbara Grespi -- Photographic excess: "scandelous" photography in film and literature after the boom / Sarah Patricia Hill -- Images of violence, violence of images: the "years of lead" and the practice of armed struggle between photography and video / Christian Uva -- Part four: Critiques of modernity: stillness, motion, and the ethics of seeing -- The body in and of the image in the films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi / Robert Lumley -- Intersections of photography, writing, and landscape: the Italian landscape photobook from Ghirri to Fossati and Messori / Marina Spunta -- Part five: Documents and experiences -- A photograph / Umberto Eco -- Essays: Photography and the ready-made and Apollo and Daphne: a myth for photography / Franco Vaccari -- Interview with Franco Vaccari / Giuliana Minghelli.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews, and theoretical reflections at the intersection of comparative, visual, and cultural studies. Its chapters, illustrated with more than 130 black and white images and an eight-page colour section, explore how Italian literature, cinema, popular culture, and politics have engaged with the medium of photography over the course of time. The collection includes topics such as Futurism's ambivalent relationship to photography, the influence of American photography on Italian neorealist cinema, and the connection between the photograph and Duchamp's concept of the Readymade. With contributions from writer and theorist Umberto Eco, photographer Franco Vaccari, art historian Robert Valtorta, and cultural historian Robert Lumley, Stillness in Motion engages with crucial historical and cultural moments in Italian history, examining each one through particular photographic practices.-- Provided by Publisher.

ISBN:

9781442649330 (bound)
144264933X

Subject:

Photography Italy History 20th century.
Photography Social aspects Italy History 20th century.
Photographie Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie Aspect sociale Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie Aspect social Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Civilization.
Photography.
Photography Social aspects.
Photographie Aspect social Italie 20e siècle.
Civilisation Italie 20e siècle.
Fotografi historia.
Fotografi sociala aspekter.
Italy Civilization 20th century.
Italy History 20th century.
Italie Civilisation 20e siècle.
Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Italy.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Minghelli, Giuliana, editor.
Hill, Sarah Patricia, 1971- editor.
Toronto Italian studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290646
Call No.: BIB 233770
Status: Available