Ugo Mulas

Introduction

The photographic work under examination, titled "Marcel Duchamp, New York," stands as one of the most emblematic portraits captured by the Italian photographer Ugo Mulas (1928–1973). Taken between 1964 and 1965 during Mulas's seminal travels to the United States, this image transcends traditional visual documentation to become a theoretical and conceptual manifesto. The encounter between Mulas the most acute observer of the contemporary art scene and Marcel Duchamp the father of conceptual art and the readymade generates an unrepeatable synergy.