The new Alinari Foundation in Florence
photographic material (positives, negatives, prints, albums, glass negatives, daguerreotypes and other original items); a vast library collection of photography-centric books, one of the best in the world in its genre; and instruments ranging from cameras to antique atelier props, technical materials and other relics of the art of photography over the past 150 years. The images in the archive are essential tools for the study of the evolution of Florence over the past century and a half; the photography collection also holds priceless records of key moments in Italy and around the world, im...