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On Friday, October 20, 2023, at 5 PM the project MirabiliAlinari will be presented.
On Friday, October 20, 2023, at 5 p.m., on the occasion of the "Archivi Aperti" initiative by Rete Fotografia, the new project MIRABILIALINARI will be presented at Villa Fabbricotti in Florence: 10 short films passionately presented by 10 specialists to discover the Alinari wonders, a surprising and extraordinary photographic archive, partly still unknown.
Each short film focuses on an object chosen for its rarity, preciousness and for the story it is able to tell, highlighting the experiments of early photographers, the material substance of analogic photography and its "curious" -for us today - modes of fruition.
The project starts from the oldest piece in the Alinari collection, the "Florence under the Snow" daguerreotype , dated 1841, and land to autochrome, the first twentieth-century color photographic process, with the image of Giorgio Roster's "Poppy Field."
In this 10-step journey through the archive, not just photographic techniques are being discussed: each object brings with it a particular story that shed light on broader aspects of the social (the Crisanti board) and political (the Congrés de Paris album) history of the 19th century or on the poetics of an artist, as in the case of Wilhelm von Gloeden's camera.
The project will be introduced by the director of Fondazione Alinari Claudia Baroncini, the director of Fondazione Sistema Toscana Francesco Palumbo, the curator Rita Scartoni and the filmmaker Tobia Pescia.
The event is free, reservation is required: Tel. +39 055 4628069 / mail: faf.toscana@alinari.it
The project was made possible thanks to Fondazione Sistema Toscana and with the contribution of Unicoop, Firenze.
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