This richly illustrated anthology about film and photography between 1919 -1939 offers a range of new perspectives on European lens media cultures. It is a collection of 18 original essays by prominent scholars and experts presenting hitherto unseen material, original case-studies and critical reflections of concepts such as ‘the new vision’, ‘das Unheimliche’ as well as imagery ranging from aerial views to microphotography, from geopolitical mappings to race biological typologies, fr...

With an ironic and brazen look, Lisette Model was able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of postwar American society.

Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and Sixties.

Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her students authors who later became famous such...