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Futurism and Photography considers the innovations of the period from 1909 to 1939, when Futurist photographers experimented with multiple portraits, abstract photography, photomontage and photocollage, as well as reportage that took for its subject-matter those things considered to embody 'modernity' and 'dynamism': dance, sport, the industrial world. The Futurists used photography, and specifically portraiture, to disseminate their image and make their presence felt both in Italian and international cultural circles. But the relationship was an ambiguous to many Futurists, Marinetti included, their ideals of spontaneity and immediacy sat uneasily with the artificiality of the manipulated photographic image. Thus, the Futurist project encompassed the attempted violation of the very language of photography, and, in the attempt, a definition of the changing nature of existence. This study traces the persona of the twentieth-century avant-garde artist to the advances in photographic technique made in the early part of the century and the use made of the medium to propagate a specific - and specifically shocking - image in the mass media of the time. Boccioni "We have always rejected

Author

Giovanni Lista; Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Publisher

Merrell : Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781858941257

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Updated

2026-03-14