Looters, photographers, and thieves
Subtitle: aspects of Italian photographic culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
By: Pasquale Verdicchio
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781611470185; 9781611470192
Subjects: Photography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The raw and the cooked-up: opening thoughts on bodies; title: Photography as literary art; title: Photographers, looters, and thieves: stolen states of the image/nation; title: Giovanni Verga: photography and verismo; title: Imaging America: the photography of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis; title: Imaginative contradictions: Von Gloeden's disruptive bodies of representation; title: Tina Modotti: life through the ground-glass.