David Forgacs : Italy’s Margins. Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861

Verlagstext:

„The author looks closely at how photography and writing have supported political and social exclusion and, conversely, how they have been enlisted to challenge it. Five cases are examined: the peripheries of Italy’s major cities after unification; its East African colonies in the 1930s; the less developed areas of its south in the 1950s; its psychiatric hospitals before the reforms of the late 1970s; and its ’nomad camps‘ after 2000. Each chapter takes its lead from a symptomatic photograph and is followed by other pictures and extracts from written texts. These allow the reader to examine how social marginalization is discursively performed by cultural products.“

Im 4. Kapitel „Asylums“ (S. 197 – S. 262) u.a. Analysen zu den klassischen Fotobuchproduktionen von Gianni Berengo-Gardin, Carla Cerati, Raymond Depardon und Luciano D’Alessandro

Buchinfo:

David Forgacs:
Italy’s Margins. Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861

New York 2014, Cambridge University Press
ISBN 978-1-107-05217-8, Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag
324 gezählte Seiten, 51 Abbildungen in S/W, 16 cm x 23,5 cm