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Fratelli Alinari Case Study

Italian traditional clothing. Image from 1875. Fratelli Alinari ©

Italian ruins. Image from 1860. Fratelli Alinari ©

Capturing history forever with Alinari

Fratelli Alinari, founded in 1852 in Florence, Italy, is the oldest photographic archive in the world.

Holding more than five million photographs, it docu ments the history of Italy and the world capturing art, culture, industry, society and landscape. With over 200 years of irreplaceable images to pro tect, preservation for future generations is of para mount importance.

CHALLENGE

Some time ago, Alinari began a preservation project for its photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, albion prints, gelatin silver prints, and colloidal glass plate negatives, where digitization was the first step of the project.