Order and otherness in a photographic shot: Italians abroad and the Great War
| Autor: | Giorgia Alù |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
History Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Subject (philosophy) Face (sociological concept) 06 humanities and the arts Ambivalence Glory 0506 political science 060104 history Honour Spanish Civil War Portrait Aesthetics Anthropology 050602 political science & public administration Ethnology 0601 history and archaeology Meaning (existential) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Modern Italy. 22:291-314 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9877 1353-2944 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/mit.2017.34 |
| Popis: | This article explores the meaning of photographic portraits of First World War Italian migrants, in terms of the tensions that emerge from their visual codes and the extent to which the subject’s interior reality and individuality might emerge from the reassuring surface imagery of photography and war. By analysing photographs of Italian migrants who either joined Italy’s army or enrolled in their adopted country’s army, we can see how the ‘otherness’ of the war – its artificial face of idealised glory, honour, and ordinariness, as presented through the portrait’s aesthetic codes – supplants the ‘otherness’ of the migrant individual, that is, their ambivalent life in between different cultures, traditions and identities. Yet, beyond the physical and psychological annihilation of the modern war, the photographic portrait, with its fabricated order and ‘otherness’, becomes, for the migrant soldier, a means of giving coherence to his dislocated existence. The nostalgic visual codes of the photograph, however, evoke an order that is now denied by the destructive mobility and mobilisation of both migration and war. |
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