Experiment und Forschung im Verhältnis von Fotografie und Anthropologie in Italien waehrend der letzten 30 Jahre. (Experiment and Research in the Relation between Photography and Anthropology in Italy, during the last 30 Years)

The author relates how anthropologists during the Fifties commissioned
photographers to document their research. Photography was presumed to be a
means of reproducing reality, yet it remained a documentary appendix. Later,
the photographs were 'used' by Leftist scientists as accusations comparable to
the American FSA documents. In Italy in the late Sixties there developed a
generation of 'concerned photographers' involved with the same themes as the
anthropologists: the subaltern Italian South, publishing in illustrated
magazines. Anthropologists have been forced to reflect more theoretically on
the uses of photography. (German)