Dr Martina Caruso

Raziskovalna dejavnost

Po doktoratu znanosti na Courtauld Institute of Art o italijanski humanistični fotografiji (2013) se dr. Martina Caruso zanima za fotografijo 19. in 20. stoletja, umetnost in tiskane medije s poudarkom na vizualnih kulturah, povezanih z Italijo. Njena raziskovalna področja in obdobja vključujejo fašistični režim, hladno vojno, antiamerikanizem, imperializem, dekolonizacijo, spolsko in krajinsko fotografijo, protikulturo in ekstremizme. Njen trenutni projekt govori o uporabi identitetne fotografije s strani fašistične policije pri nacionalizaciji prebivalcev Istre in Dalmacije ter kriminalizaciji jugoslovanskih partizanov v jadranskem zamejstvu.

Raziskovalna področja in ključne besede

Umetnostna zgodovina, zgodovina fotografije, komunizem, fašizem, hladna vojna, kontra kultura

Izbrane publikacije

Knjige in razstavni katalogi

Caruso, Martina. 2016. Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War. Bloomsbury: London.

Caruso, Martina, ed. 2014. Giulio Turcato, exh. cat., Casa Italian New York University. De Luca editore: Rome.

Caruso, Martina, ed. 2014. My Sister Who Travels, exh. cat., The Mosaic Rooms: London.

Članki

Caruso, Martina. 2023 [forthcoming]. ‘Reshaping National Identity through Primitivism in Italian Visual Countercultures’, Römisches Jahrbuch: Rome.

Caruso, Martina. 2023 [forthcoming]. ‘Agnes and Dora Bulwer’s Landscape Photographs of Post-Risorgimento Italy’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Florence.

Caruso, Martina. 2022. ‘Agnes and Dora Bulwer’s Photographs of Everyday Italians’ in The Idea of Italy. Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900, eds. A. Pelizzari and S. Wilcox, Yale University Press, pp. 222 – 227.

Caruso, Martina. 2019. ‘Conversing with Ghosts of the Previously Tamed: lens-based media technologies and non-human animals in the work of Christoph Keller, Corinne Silva and Basma Alsharif’ in ESPACE art actuel ‘Point de vue animal/Animal Point of View’, no. 121 (Winter), pp. 28 – 33.

Caruso, Martina. 2019. ‘Human Sacrifice: The Scapegoat in Partisan Photographs at the End of the Italian Civil War’ in Photography and Power, eds. M. Andreani and M. Purpura. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 192 – 294.

Caruso, Martina. 2016. ‘Iconic Images in Modern Italy: Politics, Culture and Society: Introduction’, Modern Italy (Special Issue), eds. A. Antola Swan and M. Caruso. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, issue 21.4.

Caruso, Martina. 2016. ‘Rocks & Fortresses’ in Photographic Research, ed. D. Wooldridge. Camberwell University of the Arts: London.

Caruso, Martina. 2012. ‘Humanist Photography’ in Photography: The Whole Story, ed. J. Hacking. Thames & Hudson: London.

Caruso, Martina. 2011. ‘Counter-regime Photography Under Fascism’ in Visual Conflicts: On the Formation of Political Memory in the History of Art and Visual Cultures, eds. P. Fox and G. Pasternak. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 113 – 138.

Ocene

Caruso, Martina. 2022. ‘Photographing Mussolini. The Making of a Political Icon by A. Antola Swan’, in Italia Contemporanea n. 297, pp. 293 - 295.

Caruso, Martina. 2021. ‘Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism by Anthony White’ in Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 21, n. 2, pp. 291 – 294.

Caruso, Martina. 2014. ‘Recreating first contact: Expeditions, anthropology, and popular culture by Joshua A. Bell et al.’ in Visual Studies.Taylor & Francis Online.

Caruso, Martina. 2014. ‘Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria by Edward Welch and Joseph McGonagle’ in Visual Studies. Taylor & Francis Online.

Caruso, Martina. 2012. ‘Photography and Italy by Maria Antonella Pelizzari’ in History of Photography vol. 36, n. 1.

Izbrani projekti

‘Reshaping National Identity through Primitivism in Italian Visual Countercultures’, Weddigen Department, Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome – Max Planck Institute, 2021 – 2022.

‘Anti-americanism and Cold War Conspiracies in French and Italian Painting of the Korean War’, Weddigen Department, Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome – Max Planck Institute, 2021.

‘Invisible Archives: Agnes and Dora Bulwer’s Archaeological Photographs in the Mediterranean’, British School at Rome, 2018 – 2020.

CV

Counterculture Fellow, 2021 – 2022, Weddigen Department, Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome – Max Planck Institute

Rome, Italy

Paris x Rome Fellow, 2021, Weddigen Department, BHR-MPI, Rome, Italy and Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte – Max Weber Foundation, Paris, France

Assistant Director for Fine Arts, Architecture and the Creative Industries, 2018 – 2020

British School at Rome, Rome, Italy

Assistant Lecturer, History of Photography and Modern Rome and its Monuments, 2016 – 2018

Art History Department John Cabot University, Rome, Italy

Assistant Lecturer, Contextual Studies, 2015 – 2017, Photography Department, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

London, UK

Visiting Lecturer, Photography and Propaganda, 2015, Institut français de presse, Panthéon-Assas, Paris II,Paris, France

Assistant Lecturer, Media Communications and Media Cultural Studies, 2013, London College of Communication, University of the Art London, London, UK

Assistant Lecturer, Contextual Studies, 2012 – 2013, Fine Art Photography, Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, London, UK

PhD, 2013, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

MA, 2007, Courtauld Institute of Art, Postmodernism and Postcommunism in Europe and beyond (Prof. Sarah Wilson), London, UK

MA, 2002, University College London, Comparative Literature, London, UK

BA, 2001, University of Oxford, English and French, Oxford, UK

Languages: English, French, Italian

Nagrade in priznanje

Paul Mellon Centre,

Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research,

Scouloudi Foundation, the Steve and Elena Heinz Scholarship,

Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.