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In almost every Italian neighborhood I have researched and photographed I have either been led to or discovered on my own a local bocce court. In this sense the bocce court can be thought of as an "Appropriation of Space". At another level, the physical space and the people, especially old people, playing within it is a common semiotic for Italians and their urban neighborhoods. Occasionally photos of bocce courts illustrate the written texts about Italian neighborhoods that appear in newspapers and magazines. This is a photograph from a local Brooklyn paper, but I have many others in my files. |
