Men Playing Bocce in San Giovanni in Fiore
Amazon.com Alinari Brothers' Books Below |
Fratelli Alinari, founded in 1852 in
Florence, Italy, claims to be the world's oldest photography archive,
of over 3.5 million images of artwork, world cultures, famous persons,
and most interestingly, of Italian daily life over the many years they
have been in business
On their website, they have a
bookstore offering books of some of their photography collections, and books on
photography in general. The Alinari archive is used in
photographic shows around the world, and several thousand of the
images are available for commercial and
educational uses.
Many of their images are available as prints and posters via
the on-line store AllPosters.com. The AllPosters
collection includes many of the girlie-postcard shots that foreign men
would buy during their grand-tours of Europe. I've not included
those on this page.
Here are some Alinari images I've collected together of Italian
life last century. Just click on an image for size and
price information.
Women
Places
World War I
Mussolini
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But to start with...here's an image that is not for sale.
This is a print I own, one of my favorites. It was a promotional
gift, along with some other Alinari photographs, when I purchased a
newspaper in Italy. It is from 1900 and shows a Chianti
wine deliveryman with the straw-covered Chianti bottles stacked and
tied down on his cart. I find it amazing! And I find it
wonderful that the Alinari photographer thought it was amazing enough to
deserve to be photographed.
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