Nicole Gravier’s Research in the 1970s, or Photography as an Image Analysis Tool

Cristina Casero is contemporary art historian and professor of the history of photography at the University of Parma. Her studies were initially focused on the experiences of World War II Italian figurative culture and nineteenth-century Italian sculpture, with particular interest in the production of visual links with the political, social, and civil rights of the “Italy of the time.” Along this line are the most recent surveys of the last forty years of the twentieth century, especially dedicated to the photographic image in its various meanings. In 2016 she published Paola Mattioli. Lo sguardo critico di una fotografa (Postmedia Books), and in 2020, Gesti di rivolta. Arte, fotografia e femminismo a Milano 1975–1980 (Società per l’Enciclopedia delle Donne).