Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia
The Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia ( MNAF ), formerly the Museo della Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, is a photography museum in the piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence .
Since November 1, 2006, it has been housed in the Ospedale di San Paolo , a former pilgrim hospice that later also served as a school. From 1985 it was domiciled in the Palazzo Rucellai , then in the premises of the Fratelli Alinari company. It is the first museum in Italy entirely dedicated to photography. It regularly organizes special exhibitions and has around 350,000 vintage prints of the XIX. and XX. Century.
The collection is constantly enriched through purchases and donations. It contains works by:
- Vincenzo Balocchi
- Carlo Baravalle
- Felice Beato
- Alphonse Bernoud
- Samuel Bourne
- Bill Brandt
- Roger Fenton
- Frédéric Flacheron
- Wilhelm von Gloeden
- Paul Graham
- Robert McPherson
- Carlo Mollino
- Luciano Morpurgo
- Carlo Naya
- Mario Nunes Vais
- Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva
- Giuseppe Primoli
- Roberto Rive
- James Robertson
- Giorgio summer
- Giuseppe Wulz
The museum also has thousands of photo albums, cameras , lenses and other objects related to photography socially and historically.
literature
- Amedeo Benedetti: I Fratelli Alinari. In: Amedeo Benedetti: Gli archivi delle immagini. Photo tech, cineteche, videoteche in Italia. Erga, Genova 2000, ISBN 88-8163-182-2 , pp. 348-358.
- Amedeo Benedetti: La fortuna delle immagini Alinari nella grande editoria italiana. In: Culture del Testo e del Documento. Vol. 12, No. 36, September / December 2011, ZDB -ID 2050075-0 , pp. 123-154.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 22.8 " N , 11 ° 14 ′ 57.2" E