Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata: Photography and a Southern Italian Town

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Catalog for Matera Imagined/Matera Immaginata: Photography and a Southern Italian Town. Organized by the American Academy in Rome, this exhibition highlights how photography has framed modern perceptions of Matera, a southern Italian town noted for its millennia-old cave dwellings. A palimpsest of history and traditions characteristic of Mediterranean culture, Matera in the twentieth century was transformed in the collective imagination from an ancient backwater at the edge of civilization to a cultural bellwether for the future of Europe.