Wanda and Marion Wulz at the Alinari Archive in Florence. Perspective for a transdisciplinary analysis · The recent possibility to access the entire photographic and documentary heritage of the Wulz family at the Alinari Archives in Florence, which has now become a Foundation of the Region of Tuscany, makes it possible to undertake an in-depth study of this season of Italian photography and, as far as the two sisters Marion and Wanda are concerned, to have an open look at the role of photography that they developed together both as a tool of social and identity emancipation and as a means of performative and conceptual experimentation. Starting, therefore, from a historical and philological study of the archive materials and the photographic production of Wanda and Marion Wulz, we intend to provide an up-to-date interpretation of their artistic praxis capable of concretely visualising the changes in women’s identity in the first decades of the 20th century, thanks to the theoretical and methodological contributions offered by Gender and Visual Studies, and to a perspective of reading photographic images from a feminist point of view
Il presente saggio, anche in relazione alle attività di un progetto di ricerca nazionale sulla valorizzazione delle donne fotografe italiane,5 e alla curatela di un evento espositivo prossimo, si propone di rileggere in particolare la pratica artistica riconducibile alle due sorelle Wanda e Marion Wulz. A partire dallo studio del fondo archivistico presso gli Archivi Alinari e alla luce della prospettiva transdisciplinare offerte dai gender studies, l’intento è quello di focalizzare l’attenzione sulla loro capacità di sfruttare il mezzo fotografico per definire un’esperienza di costruzione identitaria e di certificazione visiva di una prospettiva di emancipazione femminista
Muzzarelli, F. (2024). Wanda e Marion Wulz agli archivi Alinari di Firenze. Prospettive per una lettura transdisciplinare. RIVISTA DELL' ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ARCHEOLOGIA E STORIA DELL' ARTE, 79, 367-379 [10.19272/202410901018].
Wanda e Marion Wulz agli archivi Alinari di Firenze. Prospettive per una lettura transdisciplinare.
F. Muzzarelli
2024
Abstract
Wanda and Marion Wulz at the Alinari Archive in Florence. Perspective for a transdisciplinary analysis · The recent possibility to access the entire photographic and documentary heritage of the Wulz family at the Alinari Archives in Florence, which has now become a Foundation of the Region of Tuscany, makes it possible to undertake an in-depth study of this season of Italian photography and, as far as the two sisters Marion and Wanda are concerned, to have an open look at the role of photography that they developed together both as a tool of social and identity emancipation and as a means of performative and conceptual experimentation. Starting, therefore, from a historical and philological study of the archive materials and the photographic production of Wanda and Marion Wulz, we intend to provide an up-to-date interpretation of their artistic praxis capable of concretely visualising the changes in women’s identity in the first decades of the 20th century, thanks to the theoretical and methodological contributions offered by Gender and Visual Studies, and to a perspective of reading photographic images from a feminist point of viewI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


