Ugo Mulas

Ugo Mulas ( born August 28, 1928 in Pozzolengo, † March 2, 1973 in Milan ) was an Italian photographer.

Life

After the Second World War Mulas first started law school in Milan, but he broke off to take courses at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. He frequented the bar Giamaica, a meeting place for artists, poets and intellectuals. There, his interest for photography intensified. His aestheticizing personal style is influenced by the Italian neo-realism.

His models were not only artists and writers, but especially in the early days also people in waiting rooms or Milan suburbs. However, his preference was for the Art: From 1954 to 1972 he photographed regularly works and artists of the Biennale di Venezia, 1962, he held the important open-air sculpture exhibition at the 4th Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto fixed with works by renowned artists such as Alexander Calder, David Smith and Arnaldo Pomodoro. Together with the Italian theater director Giorgio Strehler he developed from the early 1960s, stage designs, which emulated on Bertolt Brecht concept of alienation. The poetry collection Ossi di- seppia by Eugenio Montale inspired Mulas 1962/63 to a series of nature shots.

Mulas worked as magazines, advertising and fashion photographer and led by advertising orders for Pirelli and Olivetti.