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like those born from her creative partnership
with avant-garde artist Salvador Dali].
The Alinari picture is also an example of the
period’s fashion photography, as fashion has
always been one of the most important ways of
spreading the medium throughout the world. It’s
not an exaggeration to say that photography’s
most famous exponents made their name in the
world of fashion, not least, thanks to the renown
of celebrity sitters.
MOVEMENT AND … MUSIC
Wanda Wulz (1903–1984) is often discussed as a
major exponent of Futurism, but her ties to the
movement were short-lived. For most of her
life, she was a studio photographer, who did not
subscribe to a specific movement. Her interest in
Futurism – or its interest in her – developed in
the early 1920s. The movement was founded by
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti – who Wanda knew
and photographed with great skill. Futurism
celebrated modernity and speed, in addition to
militarism and the glories of warfare.
It was the first avant-garde movement strictly
related to photography. We have to remember that
theatre director and cinematographer Anton Giulio
Bragaglia wrote his Fotodinamismo Futurista in
1914. The Cubists and the Expressionists were not
interested in photography… they were suspicious
of it, because it was considered too mechanical.
Wanda often worked with double exposures, and
many of her shots have a mechanical feel, where
she portrays the idea of movement, because,
Left: Wunder-bar, 1930 c.,
Alinari Archives, Florence.
Above: Portrait of Marion Wulz by Wanda
Wulz. Alinari Archives, Florence.
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