Looters, Photographers, and Thieves

Working toward an analysis of the influence of photography on the construction of an Italian "type" to serve the mandates of the new nation in the 1860s, this book engages the work of writers and photographers who have addressed or participated in this venture. From Giovanni Verga and Italo Calvino''s writings to the conceptual visual philosophy of Tommaso Campanella and Luigi Ghirri''s photograph...