Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia
The Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia ( MNAF ), formerly Museo della Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari is a Museum of Photography in the piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence.
It has been housed since November 1, 2006 in the Ospedale di San Paolo, a former pilgrim hospital, which later served as a school. From 1985 it was domiciled in the Palazzo Rucellai, then. Premises in the Fratelli Alinari It is the first museum in Italy dedicated exclusively to photography. It made regular special and has over 350,000 vintage prints of the XIX. and XX. Century.
The collection is constantly enriched by acquisitions and donations. It contains, among others, works by:
- Vincenzo Balocchi
- Carlo Baravalle
- Felice Beato
- Alphonse Bernoud
- Samuel Bourne
- Bill Brandt
- Roger Fenton
- Frédéric Flacheron
- Wilhelm von Gloeden
- Paul Graham
- Robert McPherson
- Carlo Mollino
- Luciano Morpurgo
- Carlo Naya
- Mario Nunes Vais
- Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva
- Giuseppe Primoli
- Roberto Rive
- James Robertson
- Giorgio Sommer
- Giuseppe Wulz
The museum also features thousands of photo albums, cameras, lenses and other social history of photography -related objects.