Monica Lanzetta
The Luciano Ferrara Photographic Archive. Souls and Bodies of the Neapolitan Territory in a Dissenting Narrative, 1975-1995
Through a critical and interdisciplinary approach, this research project aims to explore the Luciano Ferrara Photographic Archive to visually and culturally reconstruct two decades (1975-1995) during which Naples became a stage—radical yet not rooted—for tensions, art, and eros. The research focuses on the body as a site of negotiation between gender identities, eroticism, and social performance, highlighting—through Ferrara's activist and “southern” gaze—the power of photography as a tool for political and anthropological inquiry. The objective is to enhance the value of the Archive as a complex discursive device, capable of challenging stereotypical Neapolitan iconography and reshaping the national photographic canon.
Research Interests
Photography, visual culture, cinema, anthropology, aesthetics, gender studies.