Dr. Margherita Naim
Academic Collaborator of the Photography Research Library
She studied Art History, obtaining an Interuniversity PhD from Ca' Foscari University and IUAV University of Venice (2016). She is a researcher in History of Photography and she taught this subject at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2015-2018 AYs), at the University of Turin, in combination with Cinema History (2019-2024 AYs), and at the University of Siena, in combination with Management of Photographic Archives (2023-2025 AYs). In addition, since 2011, she has been coordinating and teaching Photographic Archiving courses in universities (IUAV, Pavia, Udine, Verona), as well as in conservation institutes (Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, ICCD in Rome, Civic Museums in Trieste, The Norwegian Institute in Rome). She curated photographic exhibitions (Paesaggi d'acqua nel Veneto, 2018; Gianni Berengo Gardin e la Olivetti, 2020), and coordinated photographic and documentary archive management projects (Sergio Bettini, Pier Maria Pasinetti, Italo Zannier).
- Bibliography on the theory and history of photography
- Eastern Mediterranean photography in art archives
- Industrial photography and Olivetti S.p.A.
- Photography in tourism promotion for cultural identity construction
- Photography as historical document
- Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
- Photography Network (PN)
- Società Italiana di Studi Fotografici (SISF)