Fratelli Alinari

Macaroni vendors, Neapel

c. 1880

Fratelli Alinari (19th century): View of the back figure of Hercules Farnese in the large hall in the National Archaeological Museum, Museo Nazionale, Naples, c. 1880, albumen paper ...

Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Maccheroni factory Insight into pasta production with drying pasta lines in the sun and workers, Naples, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: alb...

Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Architekturansicht der Porta Urbica Etrusca o di Augusto, Perugia, Umbrien, c. 1890, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on ...

Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Houses around the Arco dell Aceto at the harbour City view of Naples with the Neapolitans on the street, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: alb...

Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Lively street scene with passers-by, carriages and drying laundry on linen Strada di Santa Lucia, today Via Santa Lucia with view of the Pizzofalcone...

Fratelli Alinari (19th century) Circle: View of the spectacular gigantic waterfalls of Tivoli at the Villa Gregoriana, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, m...

At the petrol station is an original vintage silver salts photograph, made by the great Russian Constructivist artist Aleksandr Michajlovic Rodčenko (Saint Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) in 1935 ca. Printed later, presumably between the 1940s and the 1950s. In very good conditions, it is rare and precious. A scene of ordinary life is portrayed in an unusual point of view. The oblique cuts, the use of diagonal as the dynamics of this image, the close position of the machine are constants of Rodčenko'style and something of absolutely revolutionary and innovative at that time in the field of photography! Provenance: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Great Britain; Forum Auction, London; Private Collection. Bibliography: Alexander Rodchenko. Catalog of the retrospective exhibition published from the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1979. Aleksandr Michajlovič Rodčenko (St. Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) Aleksandr Michajlovič Rodčenko was a Russian painter, photographer and graphic designer, a leading figure of the Russian avant-gardes who collaborated in the establishment of the Constructivist movement. In 1924 Rodcenko definitively abandoned painting as the main artistic medium to embrace photography...

'Mussolini With Shovel' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper, the stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, here Mussolini makes the first shot of shovel...

Views of Spina di Borgo is a lot of two vintage single-coated photographic prints. On the back a violet stamp "Fotovedo Roma..." and some hand-written notes in lapis reporting the da...

'Mussolini in Venice is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper. Stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back. realized on 23 April 1937. In the photo, Mussolini is in Venice for the meeting with Chancellor Schuschnigg. Mussolini stands on a motorboat near the Santa Lucia...

Japanese troops is a b/w photograph on polished paper, dating back to the Second Sino-Japanese conflict, in particular to December 30, 1938. Stamp of Keystone Press Agency and stereotype in German on the back.  The photograph pictures German troops while shooting from a ship.  The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) was a military conflict involving Chinese Republic and Japanese Empire. China received economic support from Germany, United States and the Soviet Union.  The conflict began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, during which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese soldiers...

A B/W Wonderful Photo of C. Orff, by Felicitas Timpe, as the mark shows in back. The famous Bavarian Composer of "Carmina Burana" and "Catulla Carmina” is photographed smoking...