Federica Muzzarelli

Federica Muzzarelli is Full Professor of History of Photography at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. She is Coordinator of the Photography Art Feminism Research Centre and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pianob. Arti e culture visive Journal She is Principal Investigator for a 2022-25 PRIN Project on Feminist Italian Photography. Among her recent books and papers: Femmes Photographes. Emancipation et performance 1850-1940 (Hazan, Paris 2009); Moderne icone di moda. La costruzione fotografica del mito (Einaudi 2013); From Family Album to Snapshot Style. Notes on the Aesthetics of the Snapshot Style between Art and Fashion (Pearson 2015); Lee Miller and Man Ray. Photography, Fashion, Art (Atlante 2016); Women Photographers: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, New Dandy and Lesbian Chic Icon ("Visual Resources" 2018); I nudi maschili di Elio Luxardo. Fotografia e virilità nell’estetica fascista (Rosenberg & Sellier 2020); Fotografia, estetica femminista e pratiche identitarie (Postmedia books 2021); Feminism and Italian Photography: Notes on the Inheritance of New Generations from the 1970s (JACCP 2022); Fotografia e Femminismo tra 800 e 900 (Pearson 2024).