Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Elena Cadamuro
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2020/294 Suppl. 1
Language English Pages 24 P. 196-219 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/icYearbook-oa12268
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This article investigates the colonial photographic collections belonging to the traveller Giuseppe De Reali (1877-1937) and the anthropologist Nello Puccioni (1881-1937). Between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1930s, both visited the African continent several times, creating two collections — a zoological-naturalistic one, and an anthropologicalethnographic one — that are now kept and partly displayed in the Natural History Museum of Venice and in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence, respectively. By analysing these images, the article examines the modes of representation of the African continent and its populations, and the functions and meanings acquired by pictures and objects in the transfer to museums. In conclusion, it raises a series of preliminary questions concerning the continuities of exhibition practices between the fascist and the republican period.
Elena Cadamuro, Colonial heritage, colonial legacy: the photographic collections of Giuseppe De Reali and Nello Puccioni in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 294 Suppl. 1/2020, pp 196-219, DOI: 10.3280/icYearbook-oa12268