Fratelli Alinari Photo Archive and Museum, Italy
Fratelli Alinari, the oldest foundation in the world still active in the field of photography, and more generally in the sphere of the image and communication, was founded in Florence in 1852.
Today Alinari is the guardian of a photographic ‘corpus’ which has few equals (with a patrimony of its own of over 4,000,000 pictures, historical and contemporary, ranging from vintage prints, glass plate negatives to film and fotocolors), and is responsible for the management of an ongoing program of exhibitions and publishing. It can supply iconographical research services and manages both Italian and foreign photographic archives, constantly increasing its ‘image-bank’, in part already on microfiches and now also on digital supports which will be available for consultation on-line. Fratelli Alinari is a leader firm on a national and international level in the field of photography, images and therefore of communication.
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The Photographic Restoration Laboratory, set up in collaboration with the Opificio delle Pietre Dure is one of the first lab focused mainly on photo restoration only.
From 2007, two Museums of Multimedia and Photography are open to the public in Trieste and Firenze.
The Archive is today very active in Italy and Europe in several research and education research and marketing validation project, providing valuable contribution mainly in the following domains: watermarking, digital rights management, content provider, 3D applications, image enhancement, intelligent content retrieval, web semantic and ontologies, distance learning, preservation and image restoration, validation, testing, exploitation, multimedia content supply.
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