THE VENETO

between 800 and 900 photographs in the collections Alinari
Texts in English and Italian

Edited by: Italo Zannier
Texts: Italo Zannier, Angelo Maggi
Format: cm 24×29pp.. 208
Photos: 200Softcover
ISBN: 978-88-6302-043-4

The catalog includes around two hundred photographs, since the invention the Thirties, images divided into chapters from time to time dedicated to the provinces of Veneto; From Belluno to Treviso, of the Padova Rovigo, from Vicenza to Verona and of course Venice and its Lagoon, highlighting the overall image of a significant part of the Grand Tour.
In this volume are also represented some incunabula of historical photography, the "virtual" and largely unknown views of Padua performed by the astronomer John Herschel in English 1824 with a "camera lucida", pre-photographic tool, to "aquatints" from daguerreotype, scelte tra le Tour daguerreotype dell'editore francese Lerebours, for advancing so anthology along the historical path, started by Ellis and Ruskin in the forties 800 then emphasized in large collodion photographs of Carlo Ponti and Carlo Naya in Venice, professionals of global significance, next to famous "amateurs", as the noble Vicenza Loredana da Porto Barbaran (the American Stieglitz discovered in the late 800), and Count Giuseppe Primoli, perhaps the most significant Italian photographer between 800 and 900, host often by his Fortuny in Venice and the divine Duse.
The book also contains images autochrome performed for the Archive de la Planète, Color by photographers of the Parisian banker Albert Kahn, and an exceptional set of images of street vendors in the Veneto, hand colored and largely unpublished. There are also images of Tomaso Filippi, continuation of the Company Naya, obtained from the rare album dedicated to the Lagoon Islands, performed in 1887 commissioned by the City of Venice, at the first exhibition of 'Art at the Gardens, who suggested and initiated the founding of the Biennale in 1895.
The Tour Venetian extends into the first decades of the twentieth century, with images of the most important studios in the cities of Veneto