Storia di un’assenza. Le fotografie della zona libera della val Chisone

The paper studies the photographic representation of the Italian Resistance in the shots of the partisan Ettore Serafino and it focuses in particular on the images of a specific event: the establishment of the “free zone” in the Val Chisone (in the north of Italia, near Turin), where Serafino was the commander of an “autonomous” partisan formation. Analysing a case study, the paper address the issue of photographic representation of the “free zones” in Italy during 1944. The principal aim is to examine the mechanisms of formation of the photographic memory of the past; this memory does not have a single cause, but rather it is the result of the interaction of a number of variables: local and supra local, individual and collective, private and public, political, social and cultural, and other factors depending on process of stratification of memory.