This essay considers Italian industrial photography during Fascism, with particular attention to mining photographs in the autarchic period and the role played by illustrated magazines, such as “Materie prime d’Italia e dell’Impero” and “Il marmo nell’arte, nell’industria, nel commercio”. The aim is to show how photographs purportedly taken as technical documents of the mining industry carried instead a clear ideological agenda.

Costruire il futuro. L'industria mineraria e il ruolo della fotografia modernista durante il fascismo / A. Desole. - In: RSF. RIVISTA DI STUDI DI FOTOGRAFIA. - ISSN 2421-6429. - 2:4(2016), pp. 46-67. [10.14601/RSF-20228]

Costruire il futuro. L'industria mineraria e il ruolo della fotografia modernista durante il fascismo

A. Desole
2016

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This essay considers Italian industrial photography during Fascism, with particular attention to mining photographs in the autarchic period and the role played by illustrated magazines, such as “Materie prime d’Italia e dell’Impero” and “Il marmo nell’arte, nell’industria, nel commercio”. The aim is to show how photographs purportedly taken as technical documents of the mining industry carried instead a clear ideological agenda.
Fascism; Modernism; Industrial Photography; Illustrated magazine; Mining industry
Settore L-ART/06 - Cinema, Fotografia e Televisione
2016
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