Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape: Primitivism and Progress

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Primitivism and Progress
	On Primitivism
	On Primitivism and Photography
	Chapter Overview
	Notes
Chapter 1: “Fortified” Images of a Primitive Landscape: Arnaldo Cervesato’s Latina Tellus, 1910
	The Roman Campagna Prompts Public Outcry
	“Fortified” Images
	Contributors to Latina Tellus
	A Northern Gaze
	An Aesthetic of Ambivalence
	Photography and Neoidealism: A Call to Action
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: A Photographic Survey of the Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura, c. 1905–1935
	Maria Ponti Pasolini, Photographer
	Photography, Architecture, and Historic Preservation
	The Passeggiata Archeologica, 1909
		Il giardino Italiano
	Photography and the Italian Landscape at the First Roman Biennial
		Architettura minore in Italia
	Notes
Chapter 3: A Modernist Vision of Rural Italian Architecture
	“Primitive” Architecture and Functionalism
	Evolution
		“Rural”
		“Sachlichkeit”
		“New Photography”
		“New Objectivity” (“Neue Sachlichkeit”)
	Photography, Architecture, and the Print Media Industry
	Photography, Rural Architecture, and Italian Rationalism
		Italian “Primitives”
		Mediterraneità
	Notes
Chapter 4: “Unconventional Progress”: Photography in Matera, 1945–1980
	Matera’s Photographic Histories
	A Homegrown Modernist
	Documenting Transatlantic Matera
	Mario Cresci and the Progress of Photography
	Conclusion: A Local Photographer’s Portrait of a Landscape
	Notes
Afterword
	Notes
Bibliography
	Archives
	Bibliography
Index