To mark the 180th anniversary of the birth of photography, the\u00a0Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of Theatre and Opera, in collaboration with Fondazione Fratelli Alinari per la Storia della Fotografia, has\u00a0organised a conference on the relationship between the nascent art of\u00a0photography and the world of Italian theatre during the Belle \u00c9poque.
\nThe aim of the meeting is to study 19th- and early 20th-century photographic production with an emphasis on the kind of \u201celective affinity\u201d\u00a0between theatrical practice and photographic practice that strongly\u00a0characterised the early decades in the history of photography. To understand the main features of this phenomenon and study their repercussions on the theatrical world
\nand society of the time, the conference will identify the photographers who dealt with the genre\u00a0and then reconstruct their relationships with the stage actors or companies they portrayed. There\u00a0will be a special focus on portraits of actresses and the diffusion of this type of photograph in the\u00a0popular and specialised press. With an advisory committee made up of Maria Ida Biggi, Stefano\u00a0Mazzoni, Tiziana Serena, Emanuela Sesti and Marianna Zannoni, the conference will be jointly\u00a0held with the University of Florence and Ca\u2019 Foscari University, Venice, under the patronage of\u00a0the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD, Central Institute for Cataloguing\u00a0and Documentation) and the Societ\u00e0 Italiana per lo Studio della Fotografia (SISF, Italian Society\u00a0for the Study of Photography). The event will enjoy the support of the Fondazione Venezia.<\/p>\n
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