Anton Giulio Bragaglia (Frosinone, 1890 - Rome, 1960)
"Appendice volante del "Chi é?""
Ink autograph on a postcard. With the handwritten text: "Ho deciso di dormire sul tapis roulant". On the back: "Cartoline parlanti". 14 x 9 cm.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia, according to MoMA’s catalogue, was the intellectual leader of Italian futurist photography; he worked on his photographs in collaboration with his younger brother Arturo Bragaglia. His artistic training was mostly developed as an assistant, along with his brothers, in the film studio belonging to his father, Francesco Bragaglia in Rome.
Highlights of his biography are the publication of his book “Fotodinamismo futurista” in 1911, which was expanded in 1913; the inauguration of the art gallery Casa d’Arte Bragaglia in 1918, where work by Balla, De Chirico, Klimt and Kandinsky was exhibited, and which continued in Rome until 1943; and his opening of the Teatro degli Indipendenti in 1922 alongside his brother Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. The publication of the manifesto “The photography of movement” (1913) in “Noi e il mondo”; the creation of his film studio “La Novissima” in 1916; his collaborations with Enrico Prampolini in various films between 1916 and 1917; and the founding of his theatre company “Company Shows Bragaglia” in 1922.

Bibliographic reference:
- Abbaspour, Mitra, Lee Ann Daffner, and Maria Morris Hambourg. Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949 at The Museum of Modern Art. December 8, 2014. moma.org/objectphoto