WANDA E MARION WULZ AGLI ARCHIVI ALINARI DI FIRENZE. PROSPETTIVE PER UNA LETTURA TRANSDISCIPLINARE

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