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The Architecture of Silence: The Abandoned Life of the Italian South [Hardcover ]
Steven Seidenberg
(Photographs by)
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Carolyn White
(Introduction by)
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The Architecture of Silence: The Abandoned Life of the Italian South [Hardcover ] - Seidenberg, Steven ; White, Carolyn
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Synopsis "The Architecture of Silence: The Abandoned Life of the Italian South [Hardcover ]"
During reconstruction of the Italian economy following World War II, the newly established Italian republic and its American allies implemented a program of land reform, the Riforma Fondiaria, which ran from 1950 to 1972. With funding from the Marshall Plan, the Italian state attempted to inhibit the popularity of the communist party and other left wing movements by appropriating some of their policies. Two extensive re- form laws initiated a redistribution of land that had profound e ects across Italy, albeit predominantly in the south. Nearly 50 years later, what became a spectacular disaster for the people and a bonanza for the state has left its physical evidence scattered across the countryside. In 2017, Steven Seidenberg and Carolyn White began an interdisciplinary project to document the contemporary remains of the Riforma. Seidenberg's richly detailed photographs capture the houses, the outbuildings, the interiors, and the exteriors in a hauntingly beautiful manner, drawing attention to the lives that were strung along through the reform process. Some of the photographs depict the houses themselves, documenting the cast concrete structures posed on the landscape. As Seidenberg turns his lens toward this rural landscape, he captures the tensions between permanence and temporary, between oc-cupied and abandoned, and where the edge of tolerability exists--places where people moved to live better and where the place was so intolerable that it had to be abandoned again.
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