The Museum will virtually bring to your homes a selection of photographs coming from our archive. Every week you will discover new images.
Ulderico Carnaghi, albumen print on cardboard.
The woman, portrayed in a studio by the Italian photographer Ulderico Carnaghi and dressed in elegant western clothes in front of a backdrop with tropical plants, reveals in her face the typical characters of South American natives. This image is part of a series of photographic studio portraits of women prostitutes in Mar del Plata (Argentina) preserved in the Museum’s Archive.
In 1893 Lombroso publishes with Guglielmo Ferrero Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman, the first book ever written on female crime. According to the authors, prostitution was the most common crime among women. In full contrast with the requests for civil and political rights coming from the Women’s Rights Movement, they view the female gender as inferior.