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Stillness in Motion

Italy, Photography, and the Meanings of Modernity

by (author) Sarah Patricia HIll & Giuliana Minghelli

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2014
Category
General, Italian, Italy
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442649330
    Publish Date
    Dec 2014
    List Price
    $100.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442619982
    Publish Date
    Nov 2014
    List Price
    $84.00

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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.

About the authors

Sarah Patricia Hill is a senior lecturer in Italian in the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington

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Giuliana Minghelli is an associate professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.

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