To photograph, to exhibit, to dominate. Colonial photography in Giuseppe De Reali’s and Nello Puccioni’s collections
Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Elena Cadamuro
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/294
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 129-151 File size 422 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2020-294005
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
This article aims to investigate the colonial photographic collections belonging to the traveller Giuseppe De Reali (1877-1937) and the anthropologist Nello Puccioni (1881- 1937). Between the end of the 19th century and the 1930s, both visited the African continent several times, creating two collections - a zoological-naturalistic one, and an anthropological-ethnographic one - now kept and partly displayed in the Museum of natural history in Venice and in the Museum of anthropology and ethnology in Florence, respectively. By analyzing these images, the article examines the modes of representation of the African continent and its populations, and the functions and meanings acquired by pictures and objects in the transfer to museums. In conclusion, it raises a series of preliminary questions concerning the continuities of exhibition practices between the Fascist and the Republican period.
Keywords: Colonialism, racism, photography, anthropology, Fascism, museum
Elena Cadamuro, Rappresentare, esibire, dominare. La fotografia coloniale nelle collezioni De Reali e Puccioni in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 294/2020, pp 129-151, DOI: 10.3280/IC2020-294005