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Noemi Quagliati is an art and photo historian particularly interested in image production and image infrastructures in Europe and North America, as well as in the connections and disconnections involved in the global circulation of visual and material knowledge. She has written and curated extensively on landscape and aerial iconography, nature and territorial photography, photo-optical technology for military and environmental applications, multisensory aesthetics, and collective memory.
After having studied at Brera Academy in Milan and Istanbul Bilgi University, Noemi earned a PhD from LMU in Munich in 2021. Based on her doctoral research, she is completing her first book, entitled Militarized Visualities: Photographed Landscape in WWI Germany. Over the last years, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum, where she has collaborated on modernizing the museum’s historical aviation section by investigating the topic of aerial photography. She has been offered research grants from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen University and is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will begin in 2024 at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Noemi has lectured on German eco-aesthetics at the Junior Year in Munich program (JYM), a study abroad program affiliated with LMU Munich and Wayne State University. She currently offers courses on North American photography and art at LMU’s Amerika-Institut, where she also coordinates the PhD program of the Class of Culture and History.
RCC Project: Flying Visions, Atmospheres, Chicken Eggs: The Bird Space in the History of Photography
Selected Publications:
- “Beyond the Whiteness: Environmental Concerns in the Visual Narratives of Carrara Marble Quarries.” Sophia Journal: Architecture, Art, and Image 7, no. 1 (2022): 41–64. https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2022-0007_0001_4.
- “Histoire des appareils photographiques aériens. L’exposition Historische Luftfahrt bis 1918 et les collections insulaires du Deutsches Museum.” Transbordeur: Photographie histoire socieété, no. 6 (2022): 98–111. https://transbordeur.ch/fr/2022/histoire-appareils-photographiques-aeriens-deutsches-museum/.
- “Playing Hide-and-Seek in the German Press: Presence and Absence of Camouflage in WWI Narrations.” Vulcan: The Journal for the History of Military Technology, no. 9 (2022): 18–49. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134603-09010003.
- “The Most Famous Land|S̶c̶a̶p̶e̶.” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2020, no. 2 (2020): 52–77. https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9125.
- “Training the Eye: Production and Reception of Aerial Photography during the World Wars.” AUC Geographica 55, no. 1 (April 2020): 93–111. https://doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2020.6.
- “Immaterial Colored Fragments of Landscape.” jam it!: Journal of American Studies in Italy, no. 3 (May 2020): 147–156. https://doi.org/10.13135/2612-5641/4541.