Santi in posa
L'influsso della fotografia sull'immaginario religioso
by Tommaso Calio
Paperback (Published)
(December 2019)
ISBN: 9788833131634
Price: $49.00
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English summary: It is rare to encounter the terms “religious”, “sacred” or “devotional” among the various adjectives that accompany the noun “photography.” It is a hidden genre, despite its popularity from very beginning. This volume focuses not so much on photography as a source for religious history, but on its use in the promotion of the cult of saints and devotional practice: the introduction of the camera into the sphere of the sacred and its evolution into a “mass” practice made possible the insertion of hagiographic imagery into the media universe in a crossover between the sacred and the profane. This book is characterized by a markedly interdisciplinary approach in which the historical-religious and hagiographic perspective is juxtaposed with the history of photography, anthropology, sociology and art history. Italian description: E raro incontrare i termini “religiosa”, “sacra” o “devozionale” tra i diversi aggettivi che accompagnano il sostantivo “fotografia”. Si tratta di una tipologia non rilevata, a dispetto di un fenomeno che si presenta fin dalle origini di dimensioni rimarchevoli. Questo volume si prefigge di porre l’accento non tanto sulla fotografia come fonte per la storia religiosa, quanto sul suo utilizzo nei processi di promozione del culto dei santi e nella prassi devozionale: l’introduzione della macchina fotografica nella sfera del sacro e la sua evoluzione in una pratica di “massa” determinano l’inserimento dell’immaginario agiografico nell’universo mediatico in un processo di contaminazione tra sacro e profano. Il volume si caratterizza per un approccio marcatamente interdisciplinare in cui la prospettiva storico-religiosa e agiografica si confronta con la storia della fotografia, l’antropologia, la sociologia, la storia dell’arte.
- By (author) Tommaso Calio
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