Feminist Photographic Practices in Genoa from the 1960s to the 1970s: A Study Proposal “In Between” and “Inside/Outside” through the Research of Renata Boero, Lisetta Carmi, Nanda Lanfranco, and Giuliana Traverso

Abstract This contribution aims to focus on the experimentation of artists and authors who, in the Genoese context, between the 1960s and 1970s, dealt in various ways with the photographic medium. The focus on Lisetta Carmi, Nanda Lanfranco, Reneta Boero, and Guliana Traverso highlights questions related to feminism, to strategies of self-affirmation and repositioning of the gaze, to the relationship with the social and cultural context, and to the dynamics of the reception and practice of the archive as nonlinear perspectives of investigation. Not all of them participated in feminist collectives. Feminism was for them more about an existential practice in which the relationship with photography was connected to an autobiographical dimension, daily rituals, and reflections on the margins.