Tano D'Amico photographs and papers
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photographic prints, contact prints, and negatives by Italian photojournalist Tano D'Amico documenting social movements, political events, and daily life in Italy and Palestine, as well as notebooks containing notes for D'Amico's lectures, essays, and books, which offer insight into his writing process.
D'Amico's photographs of Italy capture social and political unrest in Rome, Florence, Milan, Montalto di Castro, Sicily, and other parts of Southern Italy between 1969 and 2019. Images depict the autonomous student movement Movimento del '77, radical leftist organizations such as Lotta continua and Potere operaio, labor strikes, marches advocating for the rights of the poor and the homeless, and the mobilization of the Carabinieri. The collection also includes images of Romani (Roma) residents of squatter's settlements in Rome. Other photographs depict Palestinian Arabs during the first Intifada and the Al-Aqsa Intifada throughout Palestine, Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, as well as in refugee camps. Notable subjects in the collection include German artist Joseph Beuys; Italian political activists Antonio Negri, Paola Meo, and Félix Guattari; and Italian terrorist Antonio Lo Muscio, member of Nuclei armati proletari.
Material within this collection has been organized by acquisition reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. Researchers should note that material within each acquisition overlaps with/or relates to material found in other acquisitions.
Dates
- 1969–2021
Creator
Language of Materials
In Italian.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico on the Frank Altschul Fund and Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
Purchased from L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Purchased from Tano D'Amico on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Purchased from Tano D'Amico on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2019.
Purchased from Tano D'Amico on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2020.
Purchased from Gaetano D'Amico on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2022.
Arrangement
Organized into six series: I. 2009 Acquisition, 1976-1981. II. 2013 Acquisition, 1977. III. 2017 Acquisition, 1969-2007. IV. 2019 Acquisition, 1987-2002. V. 2020 Acquisition, circa 1980-2019. VI. 2022 Acquisition, circa 2010–2021.
Extent
7.1 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Abstract
The collection consists of photographic prints, contact prints, and negatives by Italian photojournalist Tano D'Amico documenting social movements, political events, and daily life in Italy and Palestine, as well as notebooks containing notes for D'Amico's lectures, essays, and books. Materials are dated from 1969 to 2021.
Tano D'Amico (1942–)
Tano D’Amico is a prominent photographer of Italian social and political contestation of the 1970s. As lead photographer for the radical leftist newspaper Lotta Poetica, D'Amico chronicled street protests and confrontations with authorities culminating in the Movimento del '77 and the abduction and assassination of Aldo Moro in 1978. Later he traveled to Palestine to document the First and Second Intifadas, and he continues to document protests including the anti-globalization movement and, most recently, a series of rallies and marches in defense of the homeless in Rome. Since the late 1990s, D'Amico has delivered public lectures and published numerous books of essays on photography, and in recent years his work has been featured in exhibitions of artistic photography.
Processing Information
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Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, identified by a unique call number and titled according to month and year of acquisition.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Former call number: GEN MSS 1006. The 2013 accession was assigned the call number GEN MSS 1006; in April 2020, the acquisition transferred to GEN MSS 655.
Former collection title: From April 2020 to April 2021, this collection was previously titled Tano D'Amico Photographs of Events in Italy. It was revised to reflect newer acquisitions.
- Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000- -- Pictorial works
- Beuys, Joseph, 1921-1986
- Contact prints
- Contact sheets
- D'Amico, Tano, 1942-
- Florence (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Gaza Strip -- Pictorial works
- Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992
- Homeless persons -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Intifada, 1987-1993 -- Pictorial works
- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Italy -- Politics and government -- Pictorial works
- Italy -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works
- Italy, Southern -- Pictorial works
- Italy. Esercito. Carabinieri
- Lo Muscio, Antonio, 1949-1977 -- Death and burial -- Pictorial works
- Lotta continua (Association) -- Congresses
- Meo, Paola
- Milan (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Montalto di Castro (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Movimento del '77
- Negatives (photographs)
- Negri, Antonio, 1933-
- Notebooks
- Nuclei armati proletari
- Palestine -- Pictorial works
- Palestinian Arabs -- Pictorial works
- Palestinian Arabs -- Portraits
- Photographers -- Italy
- Photographers, Italian -- 20th century -- Archives
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Potere operaio
- Protest movements -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Radicalism -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Refugee camps -- West Bank -- Pictorial works
- Riots -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Romanies -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Romanies -- Italy -- Portraits
- Rome (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Sicily (Italy) -- Pictorial works
- Social movements -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- Students -- Italy -- Pictorial works
- West Bank -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the Tano D'Amico Photographs and Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Matthew Daniel Mason and Nora Soto
- Date
- April 2020. Revised: May 2021 and February 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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