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Fototesti di viaggio: Absolutely nothing di Giorgio Vasta e Ramak Fazel

  • Federico Fastelli

The essay examines the travel photo-text genre from a theoretical point of view, through the example of Absolutely Nothing by Giorgio Vasta and Ramak Fazel. It discusses the key issues and perspectives within the theory and methodology of visual studies and visual culture and describes the opposition between the verbal and visual parts of the volume, understood as a “Struggle for Territory”. This puts on strain the foundations of the travel story tradition, such as the narrative authentication.

  • Keywords:
  • photo-text genre,
  • Giorgio Vasta,
  • Ramak Fazel,
  • visual studies,
  • travel story tradition.,
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Federico Fastelli

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8894-9899

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Fototesti di viaggio: Absolutely nothing di Giorgio Vasta e Ramak Fazel

Authors

Federico Fastelli

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.31

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2021

Copyright Information

© 2021 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Book Title

Nel segno di Magellano tra terra e cielo

Book Subtitle

Il viaggio nelle arti umanistiche e scientifiche di lingua portoghese e di altre culture europee in un’ottica interculturale

Editors

Michela Graziani, Lapo Casetti, Salomé Vuelta García

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

492

Publication Year

2021

Copyright Information

© 2021 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0

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978-88-5518-466-3

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978-88-5518-467-0

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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