The Italian Art Society is pleased to sponsor six sessions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS), held today through 25 May at the University of Zurich.
Photography and Power I
Saturday, May 24, 2:15-3:30 PM, KOL-H-321
Organizers: Marco Andreani, Macula, Centro Internazionale di Cultura Fotografica and Marco Purpura, Balthazar, Polo di Studi sul Cinema
Chair: Marco Andreani
Frontal Portrait: Psychiatric Photography, Gender, and the Quest for National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Italy.Nicoletta Pazzaglia, University of Oregon
Rappresentare gli strumenti del potere: foto-ritratti di mappe
Tania Rossetto, Università di Padova
The Photography of Power and the Power of Photography. The Images in Leo Longanesi’s L’Italiano (1926-1939)
Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University
Photography and Power II
Saturday, May 24, 2:15-3:30 PM, KOL-H-321
Organizers: Marco Andreani, Macula, Centro Internazionale di Cultura Fotografica and Marco Purpura, Balthazar, Polo di Studi sul Cinema
Chair: Marco Purpura
Redeeming Italy: Photography and Power at the First Roman Biennial, 1921
Lindsay Harris, American Academy in Rome
Il potere della fotografia sub-specie bellica
Erica Grossi, Università di Palermo
Photography and Materiality in Italy in the 1960s and 70s: Mario Cresci’s Work Between Urban Activism and Participatory Planning
Nicoletta Leonardi, University of California EAP Florence