The Italian Art Society is pleased to sponsor six sessions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS), held today at the University of Zurich.
Photography and Writing: from Illustrated Novels to Weekly Magazines I
Sunday, May 25, 4:00-5:15 PM, KOL-G-220
Organizers: Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California San Diego and Nicoletta Pazzaglia, University of Oregon
Chair: Nicoletta Pazzaglia
The US, Italy, and “Photographic Books”: national influence in Paul Strand and Cesare Zavattini’s «Un paese» (1955)
Liz Shannon, Bass Museum of Art
Fotografia e divulgazione: foto-libri, riviste e supplementi illustrati nell’Italia degli Cinquanta e Sessanta
Marco Andreani, Macula, Centro Internazionale di Cultura Fotografica
The Narrative Scheme of the Romantic Fotonovela. Dal romanzo al reportage: Federico de Roberto e la fotografia
Carlos R. de Souza, University of Texas
Photography and Writing: from Illustrated Novels to Weekly Magazines II
Sunday, May 25, 5:30-6:45 PM, KOL-G-220
Organizers: Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California San Diego and Nicoletta Pazzaglia, University of Oregon
Chair: Lindsay Harris, American Academy in Rome
Dal romanzo al reportage: Federico de Roberto e la fotografia
Gabriella Bologna, Università di Verona
Stimmung or Dissonant Landscapes? Luigi Ghirri’s legacy in Contemporary Italian Photography and Writing
Marina Spunta, University of Leicester
Photographing Averages: Literature, Photography, Statistics and the Power of the Norm
Maria Lolla, Harvard University