Venice defends itself 1915-1918

Some words about the origin and the authors of images.
In all the territories declared war zone was absolutely forbidden to perform the photographs. Venice also did not escape this tax: many images in the show, especially those of the general mobile-tion of 1915 whether photographs or postcards were, as stated in a handwritten note in red ink, Seized by the Authorities. Unless so few photographs "signed", such as those of Thomas Filippi Venice, professional, former operator and director of PLANTS-to Naya, and Aldo Cortellazzo other professional Venice, are to be charged to Giovanni Caprioli, photographer of the Superintendence of Venice related to the early months of 1915, from May to July; in the absence of other indications are hardly attributable. The vast majority go in to the stamp of the office of the Minister of the Office of the Special Department of the Navy, and therefore fall into the category of photographs by an anonymous author attributable to the military attaches of the third section of the Photo Shoot Maritime Command's Square in Venice, placed outstanding at the beginning of the conflict by the Supreme Commander.
The foundation of Venice Taking the "Cultural Heritage and Activities," as a priority area within the scope of their interventions both directly and in partnership with major public and private institutions. Promotes and develops, as always, numerous projects for the conservation, enhancement and enjoyment of cultural heritage.
Owns an important collection of photographs, divided into two main funds, the fund and the fund de Maria Italo Zannier, gave birth at the home of Tre Oci, the Giudecca, a space dedicated to the enhancement and enjoyment of photography, which houses the two photographic collections and exhibition venue for major exhibitions and events in-depth on technique and photographic history.
Therefore considers this very fruitful collaboration started with an important institution as the Civic Museums Foundation, the owner of several photographic collections of national importance.
foundation Civic Museums of Venice. Established in 2008 by the City Council in order to exploit the immense cultural and artistic heritage of the Venetian Civic Museums, the foundation of the Civic Museums of Venice manages and promotes one of the most important museum systems in Europe. Currently, the President is Walter Hartsarich while the Directorate is headed by Gabriella Belli.
The system of the Civic Museums of Venice is an organic complex of buildings and collections of great value ar the Statistical and historical. Great processing machine and cultural production, relies on a very high frequency of public international level, called the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Includes 11 museums with their rich collections (from the Ducal Palace at the Correr Museum, the Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna Ca 'Pesaro at Palazzo Fortuny, the Museum of Glass in Murano at Ca' Rezzonico - Museum of Eighteenth Century Venice), 5 libraries specialist, the photographic archive on an external storage facilities that will soon be even restoration workshop (Vega Stock).
An innovative reality in the panorama of Cultural Heritage in Italy, and also in figures, a system of ordinary strategic importance: 10 centuries of architecture and decoration; 500,000 works of art in the collections; 2,000,000 naturalistic exhibits; 250,000 volumes held in libraries; 500,000 units in the numismatic collections; 40,000 square meters of exhibition can be visited; 1 and 11 portal websites; 750,000 individual users of the internet sites in 2013; 56,000 cards in the computerized catalog of the collec-tions; Approximately 500 employees in the service of the museum system managed by the Foundation; 2,300,000 the number of visitors in 11 locations of the system in 2013.
The Photographic Archive Historical Foundation's Civic Museums of Venice, was largely passed in 2000 at the Palazzo Fortuny museum that since the early years of its opening has always been dedicated
where to Photography and other precious funds are already deposited photographers. The photographic archive is an impressive corpus of negative and positive over the years since the establishment of the collections of Teodoro Correr was sedimented through donations and purchases.
But it must be remembered that important collections of historical photographs are still preserved in the photo-graph of the Correr Museum, Doge's Palace and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ca 'Pesaro. Many nuclei photos of these funds are now visible and available on line at the site of the Foundation of the Civic Museums of Venice, thanks to the long campaign of cataloging.
The show is produced and organized by Civita Tre Venezie and will be accompanied by a catalog of Marsilio Publishers, edited by Claudio Franzini with essays by Cesare De Michelis, Camillo Tonini and Claudio Franzini.

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