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Constructing the Image of the First Italian Metropolis Urban Photography in Milan in the 1960s and 70s

par Antonello Frongia

Résumé

This paper attempts to chart a number of parallel photographic practices in Milan during the economic « boom » of the 60s and the ensuing social crisis of the 70s, based on publications made for the larger public that registered and/or construed the image of Milan as the first modern Italian city of the 20th century. While the publications I am considering are mostly photographic books or photo-texts on Milan (from Carrieri’s 1959 Milano, Italia to Basilico’s Ritratti di fabbriche), I will also pay attention to at least one company magazine (Pirelli. Rivista d’informazione e di tecnica) and possibly picture postcards. In terms of subject matter, my focus will be urban « objects » (skyscrapers) and networks (subway lines, roads, highways). This will be preceded by a short introduction regarding the specific role that Milan has played in Italian modern culture since the 19th century (the notion of the nation’s « moral » capital) and its previous iconography (Boccioni, Futurism, etc.).

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DOI

10.25580/IGP.2021.0027

Antonello Frongia is assistant professor (Professore associato) of History of Modern Art, Università Roma Tre, where he teaches History of Photography. His research interests focus on photographic images of modernization and urbanization in Europe and the United States. He has organized several exhibitions on contemporary photographers – including Guido Guidi, Marina Ballo Charmet, Lewis Baltz, and Stephen Shore – and co-curated (with William Guerrieri) the group exhibition Red Desert Now! Antonioni’s Legacy in Contemporary Italian Photography (Linea di Confine 2018). His latest publication, Fine della città. Occhio quadrato di Alberto Lattuada (in press), is the first in-depth study of the seminal photo-book published by the Italian film director in 1941.

He is a member of the steering committee of the Italian Society for the Study of Photography (SISF), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), the Association Linea di confine per la fotografia contemporanea, and editorial board member of the scholarly journal RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.25580/igp.2021.0027

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Français

This paper attempts to chart a number of parallel photographic practices in Milan during the economic « boom » of the 60s and the ensuing social crisis of the 70s, based on publications made for the larger public that registered and/or construed the image of Milan as the first modern Italian city of the 20th century. While the publications I am considering are mostly photographic books or photo-texts on Milan (from Carrieri’s 1959 Milano, Italia to Basilico’s Ritratti di fabbriche), I will also pay attention to at least one company magazine (Pirelli. Rivista d’informazione e di tecnica) and possibly picture postcards. In terms of subject matter, my focus will be urban « objects » (skyscrapers) and networks (subway lines, roads, highways). This will be preceded by a short introduction regarding the specific role that Milan has played in Italian modern culture since the 19th century (the notion of the nation’s « moral » capital) and its previous iconography (Boccioni, Futurism, etc.).

English

This paper attempts to chart a number of parallel photographic practices in Milan during the economic « boom » of the 60s and the ensuing social crisis of the 70s, based on publications made for the larger public that registered and/or construed the image of Milan as the first modern Italian city of the 20th century. While the publications I am considering are mostly photographic books or photo-texts on Milan (from Carrieri’s 1959 Milano, Italia to Basilico’s Ritratti di fabbriche), I will also pay attention to at least one company magazine (Pirelli. Rivista d’informazione e di tecnica) and possibly picture postcards. In terms of subject matter, my focus will be urban « objects » (skyscrapers) and networks (subway lines, roads, highways). This will be preceded by a short introduction regarding the specific role that Milan has played in Italian modern culture since the 19th century (the notion of the nation’s « moral » capital) and its previous iconography (Boccioni, Futurism, etc.).

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