Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia
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The Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia (MNAF - National Museum Alinari of Photography), formerly Museo della Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari
is a photography museum located on the piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence (Italy
). It hosts special exhibitions on a regular basis and possesses 350.000 vintage print
s from the XIXth and XXth centuries.
Since 1 November 2006 it is located in the Ospedale di San Paolo, a former pilgrims' hostel that was later transformed into a school. Before that the museum was in the Palazzo Rucellai
and in the premisses of the Fratelli Alinari. It was the first museum of Italy to be devoted exclusively to photography.
The collection is continuously expanded with aquisitions and donations and contains works by, among others:
The museum exhibits also thousands of photo albums, cameras, objectives and other objects connected with the history of photography.
Fratelli Alinari
Fratelli Alinari is the world's oldest photographic firm founded in Florence, Italy in 1852. Its archives contains 5.5 million photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to modern digital photos from around the world.- Founding :...
is a photography museum located on the piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence (Italy
Italy
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). It hosts special exhibitions on a regular basis and possesses 350.000 vintage print
Vintage print
In photography, a vintage print is the first print that the photographer makes immediately after developing a negative.Vintage prints are considered the original piece of art, as it is possible to arbitrarily obtain many copies from the same negative...
s from the XIXth and XXth centuries.
Since 1 November 2006 it is located in the Ospedale di San Paolo, a former pilgrims' hostel that was later transformed into a school. Before that the museum was in the Palazzo Rucellai
Palazzo Rucellai
Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial 15th century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino...
and in the premisses of the Fratelli Alinari. It was the first museum of Italy to be devoted exclusively to photography.
The collection is continuously expanded with aquisitions and donations and contains works by, among others:
- Robert AndersonRobert Anderson-Arts and entertainment:*Robert Anderson , Scottish literary scholar and editor*Robert Rowand Anderson , Scottish architect*Robert Alexander Anderson , American composer...
- Vincenzo Balocchi
- Carlo Baravalle
- Felice BeatoFelice BeatoFelice Beato , also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and...
- Alphonse Bernoud
- Samuel BourneSamuel BourneSamuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870...
- Bill BrandtBill BrandtBill Brandt was an influential British photographer and photojournalist known for his high-contrast images of British society and his distorted nudes and landscapes.-Career and life:...
- Roger FentonRoger FentonRoger Fenton was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.-Early life:Roger Fenton was born in Crimble Hall, Heap, Bury, Lancashire, 28 March 1819. His grandfather was a wealthy cotton manufacturer and banker, his father a banker and Member of Parliament...
- Frédéric Flacheron
- Wilhelm von GloedenWilhelm von GloedenBaron Wilhelm von Gloeden was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity...
- Paul GrahamPaul Graham (photographer)Paul Graham is an English fine-art photographer whose work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally. In 2009, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize...
- Robert McPherson
- Carlo MollinoCarlo Mollino- Biography :Born in Turin, Piedmont, Carlo Mollino was the son of Eugenio Mollino, an engineer. As he grew up, Carlo Mollino became interested in a variety of topics that were as outrageous as his art, such as design, architecture, the occult, and race cars....
- Luciano Morpurgo
- Carlo NayaCarlo NayaCarlo Naya was an Italian photographer known for his pictures of Venice including its works of art and views of the city for a collaborative volume in 1866. He also documented the restoration of Giotto's frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.Naya was born in Tronzano di Vercelli in 1816 and...
- Mario Nunes Vais
- Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva
- Giuseppe Primoli
- Roberto Rive
- James RobertsonJames Robertson (photographer)James Robertson was an English photographer and gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, the Crimea and possibly India. He was one of the first war photographers....
- Giorgio SommerGiorgio SommerGiorgio Sommer was born in Frankfurt am Main , and became one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century...
- Giuseppe Wulz
The museum exhibits also thousands of photo albums, cameras, objectives and other objects connected with the history of photography.