[ebooks] Ancora io (Italian Edition) by C.B. in Arts-Photography

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Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy; this interdisciplinary study explores photographys relationship with Italian painting; film; literature; anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and powerful; Italian social documentary photography from the 1930s to the 1960s is a rich source of cultural history; reflecting a time of dramatic change. This book shows; through a wide range of images (some published for the first time) that to fully understand the photography of this period we must take a more expansive view than scholars have applied to date; considering issues of propaganda; aesthetics; religion; national identity and international influences. By setting Italian photography against a backdrop of social documentary and giving it a distinctive place in the global history of photography; this exciting volume of original research is of interest to art historians and scholars of Italian and visual culture studies.