Founded in Florence in 1852, Fratelli Alinari is the oldest firm in the world working in the field of photography, the image and communication. The birth of photography and the story of the Firm go hand in hand in their development and growth, as attested to by the immense Alinari owned fund of 3.500.000 photographs, collected in the Alinari Archives.
Founded in Florence in 1852, FratelliAlinari is the oldest firm in the world working in the field of photography, the image and communication.
Alinari is a leader in Photographic Publishing, and its Art Printworks or Art Printworks is the only one in the world still using the artisan technique of collotype on paper and on silver plate from photographic images.
Alinari is an irreplaceable point of reference for preserving, cataloguing, circulating and handing down, through the photograph, the history, society, art and culture of Italy and Europe.