Ugo Mulas (28 August 1928 – 2 March 1973) was an Italian photographer noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.
[3] Mulas worked for such Italian publications as Settimo Giorno, Rivista Pirelli, Domus, Vogue.
While covering the Spoleto Festival in 1962, he befriended sculptor Alexander Calder, who later became a major subject of Mulas' photography and writings.
[8] The exhibit included enlargements of Mulas' contact sheets and environmental portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman and Roy Lichtenstein.
[11] His photography of that period was full of experiments, in the shootings of that time he "played" with the composition, plot, framing, looking for a new artistic language.