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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to photography in Italy |
| Italians |
| 2 | Italians |
| Daguerreotypes |
| 3 | Daguerreotypes: Italy |
| 4 | Lorenzo Suscipj (daguerreotypist) and Johann Jakob Falkeisen (artist, Swiss, 1804-1883): Vues d'Italie d'après la daguerreotype (Ferdinando Artaria et Fils, 1840-1841) |
| 5 | John Ruskin: Daguerreotypes made in Italy |
| Calotypes and salt prints |
| 6 | Paper photography: Italy |
| The Roman Photographic School |
| 7 | The Roman Photographic School - Circolo del Caffé Greco (1847-1855) |
| Calotypes |
| 8 | Édouard Delessert: Ile de Sardaigne: Cagliari et Sassari, 40 Vues Photographiques (1854) |
| The Defence of Rome (1849) |
| 9 | Stefano Lecchi: The Defence of Rome (la difesa di Roma) (1849) |
| Eugene Piot |
| 10 | Eugene Piot: Italy (1849-1852) |
| Alphonse Bernoud Grellier |
| 11 | Alphonse Bernoud & Claude Grillet: Italy: Earthquake damage (1857-1858) |
| Giovanni Brampton Philpot |
| 12 | Giovanni Brampton Philpot: [Florence and vicinity] (1855-1860) |
| Robert Macpherson |
| 13 | Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome |
| 14 | Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome |
| James Anderson |
| 15 | James Anderson: The Roman Forum |
| 16 | James Anderson: The Colosseum |
| Gabriel de Rumine |
| 17 | Gabriel de Rumine: Italy (1858-1859) |
| Fratelli Alinari |
| 18 | Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Florence |
| 19 | Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Pisa: Leaning Tower |
| 20 | Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Rome: Colosseum |
| 21 | Fratelli Alinari: Portraits |
| Giorgio Sommer |
| 22 | Giorgio Sommer: Naples |
| Robert Rive |
| 23 | Robert Rive: Pompeii |
| 24 | Robert Rive: Rome |
| 25 | Robert Rive: Naples |
| Enrico Van Lint |
| 26 | Enrico Van Lint: Pisa |
| Carlo Naya |
| 27 | Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal |
| 28 | Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Palaces |
| Francis Heyland (Francesco Heyland) |
| 29 | Francis Heyland: Italy: Pavia: Carthusian Monastery of the Certosa (ca 1865) |
| Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871) |
| 30 | Introduction to the Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871) |
| 31 | Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general, revolutionary and republican (1807-1882) |
| 32 | Eugène Sevaistre: Italian Risorgimento - Gaeta (1860-1861) |
| 33 | Eugène Sevaistre: Italian Risorgimento - Palermo (1860) |
| 34 | Gustave Le Gray: Palermo (1860) |
| Vesuvius and Pompeii |
| 35 | Italy: Pompeii |
| 36 | Giorgio Sommer: Eruption of Vesuvius (1872) |
| 37 | Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii |
| 38 | Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii |
| 39 | Michele Amodio: Pompeii |
| 40 | Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867) |
| L'Italie pittoresque |
| 41 | Naya and Schoefft: L'Italie pittoresque (before 1875) |
| Stereoviews |
| 42 | Paris-Stereo: Vues d'Italie |
| Travel guides and photography |
| 43 | Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Italy |
| Albums for travelers |
| 44 | Souvenir albums for travelers in Italy |
| 45 | Enrico Van Lint: Ricordo di Pisa (ca 1875-1880) |
| 46 | Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later) |
| Cities |
| 47 | Pisa |
| 48 | Milan |
| 49 | Bologna |
| Stereotypes |
| 50 | Stereotypical portraits in nineteenth century Italy |
| Pictorialism |
| 51 | James Craig Annan: Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures (1896) |
| Futurism |
| 52 | Futurism |
| 53 | Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890-1960) and Arturo Bragaglia (1893-1962) |
| Second World War (1939-1945) |
| 54 | Margaret Bourke-White: Purple Heart Valley |
| Post-War Italy |
| 55 | Introduction to Post-War Italy |
| 56 | Mario Giacomelli: On Being Aware of Nature (Presa di coscienza sulla natura) |
| 57 | Paul Strand: Italy: Luzzara: Occupationals |
| 58 | Mario Giacomelli: There are no Hands to Caress My Face (Lo non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto) |
| 59 | Henri Cartier-Bresson: Italy |
| 60 | Herbert List: Italy |
| Contemporary colour |
| 61 | Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome |
| 62 | Franco Fontana: Colour |
| 63 | Joel Meyerowitz: Tuscany |
