Stillness in Motion : : Italy, Photography, and the Meanings of Modernity / / Sarah Patricia HIll, Giuliana Minghelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: HIll, Sarah Patricia,; Minghelli, Giuliana,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Photography and the Construction of Italian National Identity -- 2. Local Colour and the Grey Aura of Modernity: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy -- 3. Eternal Speed/Omnipresent Immobility: Futurism and Photography -- 4. The Peripatetic Portrait: Exchange and Performance in Migration Photographs at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- 5. Presente! The Latent Memory of Italy's Great War in Its Photographic Portraits -- 6. Italian Neo-Realism between Cinema and Photography -- 7. Photographic Excess: "Scandalous" Photography in Film and Literature after the Boom -- 8. Images of Violence, Violence of Images: The "Years of Lead" and the Practice of Armed Struggle between Photography and Video -- 9. The Body in and of the Image in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi -- 10. Intersections of Photography, Writing, and Landscape: The Italian Landscape Photobook from Ghirri to Fossati and Messori -- 11. A Photograph -- 12. Essays: Photography and the Ready-Made and Apollo and Daphne : A Myth for Photography -- Interview with Franco Vaccari -- Bibliography