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CCaammmmiinnaa,, ccaammmmiinnaa150 years of photographs of children in the Alinari collections

Texts by: M. I. Macioti, cm. 24x29, 192 pages, 200 four colors photographs, softcover

This book tells the story of the condition of childhood in Italy from the late nineteenth cen-tury up to the present, going beyond the commonplace concepts that all too often conditionany discussion regarding children and young people. It is a book that will intrigue and interestthe young as well as adults with its pictures depicting the vitality, joy, curiosity and infinite re-sources of the child, without however slighting the more painful and negative aspects of thecondition of the very young. The story is told by providing a brief history of the condition ofchildhood and the gradual affirmation of the rights of the child, from the late 1800s to thepresent, as depicted in the history and evolution of the photographic ‘narrative’. The picturesoffer various interpretations in line with some of the great traditional themes bound to thefundamental rights of the child – education, health, family, play – on the basis of what was sanc-tioned in the UNO convention of 1989.

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IImmmmaaggiinneeRRaaiiPhotographs for fifty years of television

Edited by: M. Maffioli, S. Nespolesi. Texts by: E. Bernabei, S. Nespolesi, G. Veronesi, cm. 21x20, 80 pages, 80 duotone photographs, hardcover

The advent of TV was a real historical and temporal turning point in Italy. Fifty years have passedand one of the ways in which RAI is celebrating this anniversary is by reliving its past throughthe photograph. Fixed images, in other words, chosen with a view to eliciting a more attentiveand profound retrospective look at the miracle of images. Focused on the protagonists of thetelevision screen, we see them caught unawares behind the scenes, or in close-ups from the ac-tual programs. Various aspects, moments, fragments of our collective experience have a solidcommon denominator, and the images of the programs broadcast by public television are partof this lode. This book hopes to prompt the mechanism of remembering, stimulating us toparticipate in the game of recognizing faces and experiences that belong to our past.

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OOiillTreasure of the Mediterraneo

Edited by: Z. Ciuffoletti. Texts by: Z. Ciuffoletti, C. Cannella, F. De Palma, G. Cecere, Fabrizio Vignolini, R. Sacchi, cm. 24x31, 208 pages, 200 four colors photograpsh, hardcover

Under the sponsorship of the National Association of Cities of Oil and its invaluable contributionof scientific knowledge, and under the aegis of the Ministry for Agricultural Policies, this bookhopes to be of avail in developing a greater appreciation of a typically ‘Italian’ and ‘Mediter-ranean’ product, olive oil, as well as the preservation and promotion of the olive-growing coun-tryside. In over two hundred photographs, both historical and recent, the publication illus-trates the story of the olive tree and olives, with particular emphasis on the origins and diffu-sion of the tree, the many phases in the production of olive oil, its importance in the food cy-cle and daily life, on its influences in the world of art and literature, aspects of its use in religiousrites and in cosmetics. A gallery of famous portraits closes the book, ranging from Manzoni toPascoli, to D’Annunzio and Montale, accompanied by poetry and passages on oil and the olive.


• Photography tells a story

IIll ppaannee ee llee rroosseeThe Women of Lazio in the Alinari Collections

Texts by: M. I. Macioti, cm. 24x28, 176 pages, 220 four colors photographs, softcover

This book is dedicated to the women who lived and toiled in Lazio, devoting a good part of their livesto this territory, enriching it with their labor and ingenuity. Peasant women at work in the fields.Feet covered with rags or bare. But also vivacious eyes, proud faces. They are also seen in festive mo-ments: pausing to rest after a day of work. Included too are fashionable aristocratic women, with flow-ing gowns and parasols to protect them from the sun. The women of the House of Savoy are also here.The two world wars obviously involved the men at the front but it was the women who had to makedo at home. Women who learned new professions when there were no men left to do them. Andthen, the women of today, having a go at new roles, new types of work. And well-known faces: actresses,internationally famous singers. But also intellectual women: writers, musicians, business women. Abook that is beautiful in the beauty of the photos, but interesting in its contents and many implica-tions.

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DDoollccee NNaattaalleePanettone and pandoro. An italian tradition

Edited by: A. Lo Russo. Texts by: Z. Ciuffoletti, C. Cannella, F. De Palma, G. Corradi, G. Cecere, M. Piccialuti, cm. 24x31, 176 pages, 180 four colors photographs, hardcover

Stories and legends of the typical Italian Christmas cakes, panettone and pandoro, curiositiesand secrets, ingredients and preparation, vintage posters and recent advertising, praise and ci-tations in literature and in the theatre, studies on the economy and sale of these products. His-torians and nutritionists, scholars and cooking buffs, producers and artisans love to dwell onthese Christmas cakes par excellence of the Italian tradition. The texts are accompanied byaround two hundred photographs from the Alinari Archives and Museum, from private andpublic collections, and in the possession of artisans and industries in the sector. The gallery ofhistorians, politicians, actors, athletes, musicians and even religion “gourmets’ of panettoneand pandoro is indeed curious. Also included are unusual collection of recipes from the late 1800swith detailed explanations and delightful comments on how to make these cakes, as well as firstand second courses of an innovative nouvelle cuisine with recipes based on panettone and pan-doro.


RRiiffiiuuttiiImages between ’800 and ’900

Texts by: D. Cammilli, cm. 21x20, 64 pages, 40 duotone photographs, hardcover

Photography offers new and original ideas for an investigation of a hidden and singular as-pect of real life, to be seen in this small but original publication devoted entirely to ‘trash’ asseen in the photographs of the Alinari collections. This survey deals not only with the pho-tographers who traced its history and culture, but also with a category of images infused witha particular meaning, in which art and history are paired with the sole aim of depicting andenriching our aesthetic and sociological wealth. Leafing through the pictures in this book isa way of retracing the various stages in the history of photography, but it is also an exampleof how anything can be turned into a ‘beautiful photograph’ if seen through the eyes of anartist who succeeds in capturing its inherent multi-faceted significance.


SSoopprraavvvviissssuuttiiportraits story memory

Photographs by Simone Gosso • Texts by L. Picciotto e A. Bravo

cm 25x22, 96 pages, 73 four colors photographs, hardcover

The photographic search from which this book is born is begun in 1998 and finished just weeks be-fore its publication. Gosso approached the complex universe of the deportation nearly for case,through the diary of a survivor. Behind these faces there are personal tragedies but also great course.Many traces can be noticed: the collective history of the Italian deportation, the personal vicissitudeof who has been deported and the direct knowledge of the portrayed persons. In these images thereis not completeness but just the attempt to help to tell the lives of men and women who are excep-tional because they are normal, like the hope to continue what begun with their testimonies.

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TTeerrrraavviivvaaVolcanoes and earthquakes in the photographs of the Alinari Collections

Edited by: C. Gasparini

Cm. 21x20, 48 pages, 50 four colors photographs, hardcover

In the course of the last century photographers have documented some of the most cata-strophic natural phenomena. Although these are not well represented, they testify to theneed felt by human intellect to create instruments that can be used to study and in some waycontrol these phenomena. Tragic as some of the pictures are in their harsh actuality, they re-veal a constant and inexhaustible artistic inspiration, as they invest habitual gestures with adeeper significance deserving of our attention.


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TTrriieessttee uunn ssooggnnoo ttrriiccoolloorree 11994455--11995544Images from the Alinari Collection

Texts by: P. Nello, cm. 24x28, 176 pages, 150 four colors images, hardcover (in preparation, provisional data)

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the annexation of Trieste to Italy, Fratelli Ali-nari traces the historical stages involved in reuniting the city once and for all to the MotherCountry in a lavish repertory of photographs, many of which previously unpublished. Thiscompletely visual itinerary begins in the immediate post-war period, with documentary evi-dence of events explored objectively and impartially, touching in the crudeness of their de-piction, but also profoundly human and imbued with that higher significance that makes them‘History’. Its multi-faceted reconstruction makes it possible to trace the complex series ofevents of a Trieste that was initially divided and controlled, until that momentous October26, 1954 when the landing of the Bersaglieri definitively sanctioned its reunion with the Ital-ic land.

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BBaauuhhaauuss Photographs

German edition. L. Schöbe. Texts by: I. Zannier, W. Liva, O. Akbar, cm. 24x29, 176 pages, 148 duotone photographs, softcover

The Bauhaus, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, is considered the most renowned instituteof applied arts, design and architecture of our times in the Germany of today. Up to 1933 whenit was closed by the National Socialists, Bauhaus concepts, works and workshop products in-fluenced the perception of art, architecture and design throughout the world. Its stylistic prin-ciples inspired art movements such as modernism, nonobjective art and futurism and artists suchas Luigi Veronesi, Bruno Munari and Gio Ponti. Our current image of the Bauhaus dependsin great part on photography since much of what was produced has been destroyed. The gamutof pictures ranges from professional photographs of architecture and objects, to stage photo-graphs and artistic experimentation, including techniques of montage and collage.


VVuu dd’’IIttaalliiee 11884411--11994411Italian photography in the collections of the Alinari Museum

Edited by A. Cartier-Bresson and M. Maffioli

Cm. 4x29, 224 pages, 200 four colors photographs, softcover

Brought out jointly by Alinari and the City of Paris this book is dedicated to a hundred years ofthe history of Italian photography. Two hundred pictures take us on a historical and aestheticjourney through Italian photography. The latter in particular was of note in the turn of thecentury history of photography. The early twentieth century in Italy is commemorated withsome of the best-known photographers of the trends in artistic photography, such as Pictori-alism with Guido Rey, Peretti Griva, or the autochromes of Prince Chigi and Roster, and of theavant-garde, such as the Italian Futurism, with Paladini, Wanda Wulz, Castagneri, Parisio up tothe representatives of Neorealism so marvelously expressed in Italian photography and cine-ma.


PPiittttoorriiaalliissmmooand a hundred years of pictorial photography in Italy

Edited by: I. Zannier. Texts by: M. Maffioli, A. Moggi, cm. 24x28, 128 pages, 110 four colors photographs, softcover

This anthology of around 100 photographs, pictorialist both in aura and technique, falls into aperiod that ranges from the years of Daguerre and his invention to the 1930s. It was then, withphotojournalism coming into vogue, that this ideological tendency slowly waned. The book in-cludes works by some of the most significant and famous nineteenth and early twentieth-centuryphotographers, including the Pre-Raphaelite pioneers Oscar Gustaf Rejlander, Julia MargaretCameron, Lewis Carrol, and the French photographers Robert Decachy, Costant Puyo as wellas an extensive selection of Italian pictorialists, ranging from Guido Rey to Mario Castagneri, Car-lo Wulz to Silvio Maria Buratti, Emilio Sommaria to Domenico Riccardo Peretti-Griva.


• The History of Photography

• Photography tells a story

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MMaarriillyynn aanndd ffrriieennddssPhotographs by Shaw’s Archives

Texts in Italian, English, French

Texts by: C.H. Favrod, cm. 24x28, 160 pages, 140 photographs, softcover

The catalogue present a selection of 140 images most of which have never before been published,of the famous star, a myth and icon of the 20th century, and of her contemporary friends andactors. The photographs recreate magic and charmly recollections that accompany us on anitinerary of discovery, as we draw nearer to Marilyn. The authors of the photographs are SamShaw and his son Larry. The father had his first contacts with the world of the cinema in 1950,and met Marilyn in 1951 and from then never abandoned her. From him comes the famous se-quence of the skirt blown up by hot air. A third of the shots are devoted to Marilyn Monroe, cho-sen from Shaw’s unpublished portraits, and a hundred are photos of the “friends”.

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Italian/English editionTexts by: B. Gambarotta Cm. 25x20, 88 pages, 40 duotone photographs, hardcover€ 25,00 • ISBN 88-7292-463-8 • Cod. VOL0511

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Italian/English editionTexts by: O. Calabrese Cm. 25x20, 88 pages, 40 duotone photographs, hardcover€ 25,00 • ISBN 88-7292-457-X • Cod. VOL0506

To visit the cities of once upon a time and to relive them with the help of an extensive collectionof pictures scattered, although cleverly put together, cannot be considered just an operationof a documentary type. Discreet voices – at times barely whispered – that reach us from thesescenes and invite us to connect up after a century with these cities of ours, seem to want toask us urgently for an audience. So that we, the great-grandchildren who have just begun tolive the 3rd millennium, can lovingly preserve – and nourish – the view. And, thanks to theseobservations, in an alternating of memories ‘in transparency’, transform ourselves unex-pectedly into living witnesses of the cities that were.

Cities, territories •and photography

AAccqquuaavviivvaa ddeellllee FFoonnttiiin the photographic collections between ’800 and ’900

Italian/English edition. Edited by: C. Colafemmina. Texts by: C. Colafemmina, S. Leonardi, G. Lerario, M. Paciello, A. Simonetti, cm. 24x29, 184 pages, 200 duotone photographs, hardcover

Since the end of ‘800, the city of Acquaviva delle Fonti, in Bari province, has been theatre ofmany photographic campaigns, some of which unknown until today. In the volume are pre-sented photographs from the Fratelli Alinari and other artist from Puglia, with the importantLerario collection, constituted of photographic postcards, and the images from the Town halland the “Soprintendenza di Acquaviva”. Photographs that document, since ‘800, a city andits territory, with the architectures - religious and civil -, the old works and the “acquavivesi”customs, inhabitants and personages who have left their print in various fields. An extraor-dinary travel in the memory, possible thanks to a special instrument like the camera.


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LLaazziiooImages from the Alinari Collection

Italian/English edition. Edited by: U. Mariotti Bianchi. Texts by: F. Storace, N. Accame Cm. 28x30, 255 pages, 154 duotone photographs, hardcover

In an excursus of images, the book illustrates one of the most articulated regions of Italy;varied from the point of view of geography and of cultural history, with people who differ inlanguage and provenience. Rome, forever capital, is extolled in these pictures, whose an-tiquity and historical authenticity make them unprecedented. All the provinces of Lazio arerepresented in their specific character and historical aspect, proposing a world that, in littlemore than a century, has changed at an ever increasing rate. The photographic collectiongives a vivid idea of the many stages that have gradually changed the face of the region in aspan of five generations, teaching us not to forget what we once were.


PPiissaa ee llee ssuuee AAccqquueePhotographic journey across the millenia

Texts by: P. Pierotti, cm. 24x29, 184 pages, 188 four colors photographs, softcover

Important book of photographs that document the relationship of Pisa and its Province withits waters (rivers, sea, lakes, hot springs). The book is based on a broad selection of histori-cal photos, most of which never before published, from the Alinari Archives and the Fratel-li Alinari Museum of the History of Photography, together with a new photographic cam-paign, planned with this book in mind. A total of 200 photographs present an interesting com-parison between yesterday and today, between the 1800s and the 1900s, between past and pres-ent activities relating to the river and the sea. They also provide a picture of how these terri-tories have been transformed in the course of the years. The photographs bring back manymemories: the places immortalized before the destruction of the war, the floods, river trans-portation…Included also various “oddities” such as the first silver daguerreotypes of Piazzadel Duomo, or the same square flooded, the Arno frozen over and a curious picture of Vic-tor Emmanuel III as photographer on the estate of San Rossore. The book also serves to callattention to what a precious asset water is, insofar as it is a “depletable resource”, so that wemay reflect on the equitable and discerning use of water that characterized the past when com-pared with the industrial and domestic wastefulness of modern society.


VVaallddiinniieevvoolleeA nintheenthcentury itinerary

Edited by: G. Magnani, cm. 34x28, 108 pages, 130 duotone photographs, hardcover

The origins of the book lie in the rediscovery of a photographic album dedicated to Ferdi-nando Martini, man of letters and politician who lived in this Tuscan territory. Dating to be-fore 1896, the photos in the album (all large-format and in excellent condition) were used,together with many others of similar subjects, to illustrate the guidebook ‘In Val di Nievole’.The photographic campaign was entrusted to the photographer Alfredo Lumachi. Other pho-tos on the same theme, fruit of a photographic campaign carried out by Alinari around 1890,have also been included. Like any guidebook worthy of its name the aim was to interest po-tential tourists and entice them to take a trip to these places, at the time unknown and there-fore even more fascinating. Today, thanks to the book, we follow in their steps, rediscoveringtowns, hidden corners, the most secluded places of a territory with vast borders and the mul-tifaceted settings that characterized the Valdinievole at the time. This can therefore bethought of as a pioneer journey in the Tuscany of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury, an area that was geographically and culturally circumscribed but varied.


• Cities, territories and photography

• Tuscany and phtography

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TThhee AAddddaaResource to protect and appreciate

12 postcards, cm. 13x18, duotone

In a slender case containing 12 vintage photographs in post card size selected from the Ali-nari collections, tribute is paid to the Adda River, to its famous course, a historical boundaryline between Milan and Venice, exceptional stage for Manzoni’s personages, ideal settingfor Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings.The pictures in the collection reveal the artistic and natural beauties, the productive activi-ties of the past, the historical navigation systems, the first railroad crossings, the old inhabit-ed centers along the three hundred kilometers of its course, from the source to its confluencewith the Po. This complex ecosystem achieved an admirable equilibrium between resourcesof nature and productive activities and it has in large part been preserved. Tracing its histo-ry through photography helps us understand the importance of the Adda in the past, but aboveall the need to safeguard and protect it in the future.

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SSeennttiieerrii ddii lluucceePhotographer artists in Turin from 1946 to 1970.

Edited by Dario Reteuna

Cm. 21X21, 144 pages, 150 b/w and four colors photographs, softcover

After Sentieri di Luce (Paths of Light), this book continues the historical-critical survey ofphotography in Turin in the second post-war period up to the 1970s. The best-known andrepresentative photographers of this period are included. Interest focuses on the “pure” formsof photographic art that developed in the inner sanctum of exclusive clubs whose memberswere not interested in documenting reality and the many political and social problems thatcharacterized the years of contestation and the economic miracle. With few exceptions thisanthology of carefully selected photographs consists of pictures of outstanding artistic quali-ty, well-known and even famous in their time, all published more than once in books, cataloguesand the most highly qualified and specialized Italian and international press. This testifies tothe validity and importance of artistic expressions, elaborated within prestigious associations,which succeeded in affirming propositional values and models, in negotiating with and in-teracting within composite Italian and international cultures.

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TThhee ffaammiillyy iinn tthhee wwoorrlldd

12 postcards, cm. 10x15, four colors

The set of photographs contained in this case and taken from the Fratelli Alinari Museumof the History of Photography in Florence, illustrate the family in various cultures of theworld. Aside from anthropological and cultural-historical differences, the idea of family hasmany elements in common.The woman is always the determining figure even if she interprets marital decisions, sur-rounded by children, husband and other women (since polygamy was practiced in many cul-tures). From Europe to Asia, the Americas to Africa the concept of family is solid and serene.Also determining is the aspect of the custom and place in which the family is portrayed. Asidefrom the varying numbers composing the groups and the different geographical contexts,recurrent elements appear in all these images: from the prescribed order of form, to ele-ments of context, to the symbolic composition of the groups in a patriarchal sense. All thesepictures contain elements, evidence of traditions, customs, mores that no longer exist.

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