Italian Neorealist Photography
Antonella Russo
Italian Neorealist Photography Its Legacy and Aftermath offers an analysis of the socio-historical conditions of the rise of post-war Italian photography, considers its practices, and outlines its destiny. More specifically this first comprehensive cultural analysis of postwar Italian Photography, examines the inception and the development of Neorealism in Italian photography by examining it within the sociopolitical context of the early 1940s, a time which saw the fall of fascism, the struggle for the Liberation of the country, and the establishment of the Italian Democratic Republic, and outlines its subsequent withering at the beginning of the following decade. It posits a journey into the accepted narratives on the formation of modern Italian photography available to this day, to signal their limits, to outline new methodological horizons and, above all, to reconstruct a map of manyfold parts that would account for the complexity of the development of Italian modern image during the Liberation years.
Routledge
Publication Date: December 2021