From: Jim Strain (jstrain@iquest.net)
Date: 04/27/03-06:10:00 AM Z
Apologies to all. Alberto is quite right about the Alinari exhibition in
Firenze. We went last month and it was at worst a fascinating history.
Highly commend it to all who happen to be in that magical city. Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alberto Novo" <alnovo@inwind.it>
To: "alt-photo-process-l" <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 3:25 AM
Subject: Alinari exhibition in Florence
> Hi all.
> Yesterday I went to Florence to visit the exhibition "Fratelli Alinari,
fotografi in Firenze. 150 anni che illustrarono il mondo. 1852/2002".
> I suggest to those are going to come in Italy before June 2nd to plan also
an half day to spent visiting this exhibition (see also
http://www.alinari.com/ ), held in Palazzo Strozzi with more than 500 prints
filling 16 rooms, divided by themes (e.g. the tourism photography in the
middle 1800, the realism, the architectural phot., the art documentation,
...).
> The pictures from 1852 up to the end of 1800 are chiefly albumen prints,
with some salt prints; almost all are in good conditions, though it is not
ever possible to know if they were gold toned or not. In the last rooms
there are also a couple of carbon prints.
> There are also some remarkable examples of collages, like that of the
Piazza della Signoria assembled from 4 prints forming a 68.9x105.5 cm image
(1863), or that of the "Adorazione dei Magi" of Gentile da Fabriano,
reproduced 1:1 and then hand coloured (end of 1800).
> An entire room is devoted to the comparison of landscape pictures, in
addition to the Alinari's ones, from Ponti, Naya, Bresolin, Caneva,
Anderson, Clifford, Negre and Macpherson (I am not sure to have mentioned
all).
> The exhibition shows also some original tripods, lenses and cameras for
negatives up to 40 cm, and, among other ones, an original silver gelatine
negative on glass sizing 115x88 cm (1889).
>
> Alberto
> http://spazioinwind.libero.it/albertonovo/
>
> Old printing techniques Group in Italy (GRN):
> http://www.grupponamias.com/
>
>
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