SULLA FOTOGRAFIA DI MEMORIA: I RESTI DEL MANICOMIO /A PHOTOGRAPHY OF MEMORIES: THE REMAINS OF ASYLUMS

Abstract

The photographic language is a powerful instrument of historical divulgation: thanks to its characteristic of stopping time, photography can show us a present that has been, creating new narrative forms capable of plunging us into moments of the past. Important the delicate reality of the Italian asylum through photographs and other types of visual images. It allows us to keep our heritage. It is disappearing and distribute them to all those people who do not have access to other forms of information, but who need it to enhance their territorial history. A modern historical
divulgation to raise awareness on an important topic, intercepting a new public is waiting for information in the dilated and increasingly distracted, a world of the web.

Keywords:
Photography, Modern Divulgation, Asylum History.