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L'oralità dell'immagine. Etnografia visiva nelle comunità rurali siciliane
2018
L’opposizione ipotizzata fra tradizioni orali e scritte, che prevale in antropologia, è ingannevole: in primis perché tende ad annullare l’orale nel contrario dello scritto, e non ne comprende il modo di funzionare specifico; in secondo luogo perché non contempla la possibilità che, tra gli estremi dell’orale puro e dello scritto puro, esistano molte situazioni intermedie. Paradossalmente oggi, nella nostra società così impregnata di immagini, l’oralità è ritornata ad assumere un ruolo centrale proprio per la produzione e la comprensione del codice visivo. Questa «oralità dell’immagine» è connaturata nei nostri comportamenti quotidiani e per questo motivo risulta difficile individuarla e an…
I ricordi figurati: «foto di famiglia» in Sicilia
2006
Today we are witnessing the increasingly insistent formation of visual stereotypes. The continuous repetition of these modules, used in similar situations, makes it easier to interpret them, so much so that they can now be considered elements of a common language: a figurative language to be investigated in the context of the anthropology of visual communication. The Sicilian family photos collected in this essay belong to this category of cultural products and allow us to reflect on the different articulations of cultural phenomena.
Recuerdos figurados. "Fotos de familia" en Sicilia
2020
“Life is not what you have lived, but what you remember and how you remem- ber it to tell”. Taking cue from the words of Gabriel García Márquez, the essay analyzes a gallery of photographic images portraying “family photos”, made in Sicily between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, which are placed in an inter- mediate space between oral and written traditions becoming “biographical object”. The analysis of the photographic corpus searches for the connections between the different events that the image has gone through (production, transmission, fruition). It is in his “life story”, in his passage from one generation to the other, from one type of represe…
LIMINARY IMAGES. THE RITES OF PASSAGE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS OF THE SICILIAN FAMILIES OF THE XX SEC.
2017
“Life is not what you have lived, but what you remember and how you remember it to tell“. Taking cue from the words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the essay analyzes a gallery of photographic images portraying «family photos», made in Sicily between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, which are placed in an intermediate space between oral and written traditions becoming «biographical object». The analysis of the photographic corpus searches for the connections between the different events that the image has gone through (production, transmission, fruition). It is in his «life story», in his passage from one generation to the other, from one type of representat…