Photo archive
A Rich Visual Storehouse
With the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna
A Million Images
The kaleidoscopic range of the Cineteca’s Photo Archive includes over a million images. This enormous legacy represents a vast visual memory, and is driven by two principal motivations: on the one hand, the desire to photographically document the history of cinema, and on the other, to protect and make accessible the wealth of historical images of Bologna, the archive’s home city.
Two Sections: Film and Bologna
The Film Section is composed of over 350,000 photographs, including stills and images from film productions, portraits of actors and directors and a range of other visual documents sold or donated by photographers and collectors to the Cineteca. The Bologna Section incorporates over 800,000 images from 1873 to 2000, acquired by or given to the Cineteca. The archive brings together the entire bodies of work of some photographers, as well as individual images, small collections, family albums, postcards and stereoscopes. These materials are an integral part of the Bologna Photographic Alphabet project.