Fratelli Alinari. Major photographic firm founded in Florence, Italy, in 1852 with more than a million photographs in its archives. Aperture Magazine Opton uses the dual title

Opton uses the dual title to challenge the viewer to look past the political rhetoric of wartime patriotism

curated statement on the state of the medium

The Spiritual Lens: The issue leans heavily into the idea of the photographer as an "artist-philosopher

Included are excerpts from interviews with miners but most of the book consists of black-and-white photographs

Ed Van der Elsken

Fratelli Alinari. Major photographic firm founded in Florence, Italy, in 1852 with more than a million photographs in its archives. Aperture Magazine Opton uses the dual titleAlinari, 1993. Full title: Fratelli Alinari: The Archives, Printing Procedures in the Alinari Archives, the Photographic Files, the New Photographic Campaigns, The Art Printworks, The Publishing House, The Museum, The Library, The Instruments for Photography, The Image Presented and the Image Preserved, The Photographic Exhibitions by Claudio de Polo, President Director General. Alinari, 1993. Hardcover with protected dust jacket, fine fine, like new.