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Dr Paolo Magagnoli

Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 334 68808
p.magagnoli@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Book (1)
Book Chapters (6)
Journal Articles (18)
Newspaper Articles (2)

Book

Magagnoli, Paolo (2015). Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary. Columbia, CA, United States: Columbia University Press. doi: 10.7312/columbia/9780231172714.001.0001

Book Chapters

Magagnoli, Paolo (2024). To put a human face on the question of labour: photographic portraiture and the Australian-Pacific indentured labour trade. Coercion and wage labour: exploring work relations through history and art. (pp. 331-356) edited by Anamarija Batista, Viola Müller and Corinna Peres. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.4329861.20
Magagnoli, Paolo (2023). To put a human face on the question of labour: photographic portraiture and the Australian-Pacific indentured labour trade. Coercion and wage labour: exploring work relations through history and art. (pp. 315-340) edited by Anamarija Batista, Viola Müller and Corinna Peres. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press.
Magagnoli, Paolo (2022). Museums in late populist democracies: the photographic archive and the working class. Museums and the working class. (pp. 90-107) edited by Adele Chynoweth. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003029519-6
Magagnoli, Paolo (2018). ‘How Mining Made Australia’: Populist Nostalgia and the Spectre of Climate Change in the Television Documentary Dirty Business. Climate Change and The Media: Vol. 2. (pp. 120-138) edited by Benedetta Brevini and Justin Lewis. New York, NY United States: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/b14826
Magagnoli, Paolo (2017). Moulène, Rancière and 24 Objets de Grève: productive ambivalence or Reifying Opacity?. Work. (pp. 140-142) edited by Friederike Sigler. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press.
Magagnoli, Paolo (2013). 'Let meaning disintegrate': digital compression as revelation in the art of Sean Snyder. The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet. (pp. 223-240) edited by Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez. Leuven, België: Leuven University Press.

Journal Articles

Magagnoli, Paolo (2023). From national hero to national problem: the image of the worker in Pix Magazine (1938-1954). Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (1), 49-70. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2155685
Johnston, Anna and Magagnoli, Paolo (2022). Histories of the illustrated magazine in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2156085
Magagnoli, Paolo (2020). “A library of photographs covering the entire continent”: Walkabout magazine and the politics of documentary in post-war Australia. Photography and Culture, 13 (1), 29-56. doi: 10.1080/17514517.2019.1693878
Magagnoli, Paolo (2020). Blinded by quarry vision: Nicholas Mangan, Australia, and the history of extraction in the South Pacific. Third Text, 34 (6), 415-435. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2020.1823703
Magagnoli, Paolo (2019). The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Burlington Contemporary.
Magagnoli, Paolo (2016). The civilized artist beautifies pollution: Zhao Liang’s Water and Beijing Green. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 3 (3), 367-377. doi: 10.1386/jcca.3.3.367_1
Magagnoli, Paolo (2016). The Internet as Ruin: Nostalgia for the Early World Wide Web in Contemporary Art. Transformations, 28.
Magagnoli, Paolo (2016). 'Just Enough Critique’: the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Seismopolite (13)
Magagnoli, Paolo (2015). Mapping Artists’ Films: Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art. Senses of Cinema (74)
Magagnoli, Paolo (2013). Capitalism as Creative Destruction: The Representation of the Economic Crisis in Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall. Third Text, 27 (6), 723-734. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2013.857899
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). Spectres, Sven Augustijnen (2011). Belgium: Auguste Orts Production. Transnational Cinemas, 3 (1), 129-131. doi: 10.1386/trac.3.1.129_5
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). "European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics", Ewa Mazierska. Transnational Cinemas, 3 (2), 239-241. doi: 10.1386/trac.3.2.231_5
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). Moulène, Rancière and 24 Objets de Grève: Productive Ambivalence or Reifying Opacity?. Philosophy of Photography, 3 (1), 155-171. doi: 10.1386/pop.3.1.155_1
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). Between Mimetic Exacerbation and Abstraction: Images of Atrocities in Contemporary Art. Akademisk Kvarter, 5, 89-100.
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). The pull of violence: Paul Chan's trilogy of war. Afterall, 1 (31), 26-35. doi: 10.1086/668920
Magagnoli, Paolo (2011). A method in madness: historical truth in Walid Raad's Hostage: The Bachar Tapes. Third Text, 25 (3), 311-324. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2011.573316
Magagnoli, Paolo (2011). Critical nostalgia in the art of Joachim Koester. Oxford Art Journal, 34 (1), 97-121. doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcr012
Magagnoli, Paolo (2010). Documentary fictions: new concepts of truth and representation in the works of Anri Sala and Hito Steyerl. Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 1 (12), 41-59.

Newspaper Articles

Magagnoli, Paolo (2024, 04 23). Nothing Has Changed: Interview with Ian Millis Labor Art Review 1-9.
Magagnoli, Paolo (2024, 04 21). Jasmine Togo-Brisby: Intimate Archeologies of Australian Slavery Town Hall
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