Percorrer um País: perceção e memória coletiva do território na fotografia

• Autor(a) principal: Agnese Nascimben
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/123993
• topic: Artes; Arts

This study focuses on the role of photography in the context of Italian territory,comprehended in the last decades in a very broad and comprehensive manner. TheItalian territory has undergone many changes during the years of economic boom,these changes did not affect the consolidated city and its historical center in mostof the cases, but rather the peripheries and the entire landscape that had continuedto remain esthetically until then. In particular, it examined the development of a"movement" which brought together numerous Italian photographers of the post-Second World War, from the 1980s particularly, called "Italian Scuola di paesaggio".While being a non-formalized group, the implications and the impacts that the workof this specific set of photographers introduced, had influenced not only the historyof Italian photography but also the perception and use of the photographic image asan apparatus for the reading of the contemporary city, which was often consideredconfused and contradictory. These photographers were, in fact, the first ones to pioneerthe visual representation of the space that would make a part of our collectivememory; and to give it form and coherence through photography.Through the critical analysis of the images of three photographers who workedwith different approaches and methods, an assembly of materials are presented atreader's disposal, not only theoretical but also visual. Driven by the desire of providingto the reader a basis of what is represented in the study, the research work isaccompanied with exemplary images chosen.The focus of the final work is therefore not limited to photography per se, butit extends itself to the forms and problems of urban space since photography cananswer to these issues as being a tool of critical reflection, capable of mediating adequatesolutions to inhabit the contemporary territory.