Fondazione Lume — Ninety Years of Photography

A spiral timeline crosses ninety years: a charter signed by twelve people, forty prints in two crates for five city halls, and three hundred after-dark negatives.

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A spiral timeline from a twelve-signature charter to digitization: ninety years of photography at Fondazione Lume.

Search by decade

Adds a decade search for the collection, so visitors can jump straight to a period instead of gliding the whole spiral; every node keeps its photograph and archive reading.

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Build a full-screen chronicle page for a photography archive, Fondazione Lume's Ninety Years of Photography: a spiral timeline glides from the founding to the present — the charter signed by twelve people in the room above a bookshop, the first travelling exhibition with forty prints packed into two wooden crates and sent by train to five city halls, a donor who arrives with three hundred after-dark negatives and stays to catalog them by hand, the studio archive that doubles the collection overnight, the first Silver Lens award, the Saturday school of seeing, a valley series shot over three summers until the valley sank beneath a reservoir, and the ongoing digitization that opens the holdings to everyone. Every node pairs a photograph from the collection with an archive reading that tells the story behind it, all set on beige paper with a fine spiral line and restrained whitespace. Single-file static page.
Dark gallery walls

Swaps the beige paper for dark gallery walls, while the fine spiral line, the timeline structure, and the restrained whitespace stay exactly as they were.

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Build a full-screen chronicle page for a photography archive, Fondazione Lume's Ninety Years of Photography: a spiral timeline glides from the founding to the present — the charter signed by twelve people in the room above a bookshop, the first travelling exhibition with forty prints packed into two wooden crates and sent by train to five city halls, a donor who arrives with three hundred after-dark negatives and stays to catalog them by hand, the studio archive that doubles the collection overnight, the first Silver Lens award, the Saturday school of seeing, a valley series shot over three summers until the valley sank beneath a reservoir, and the ongoing digitization that opens the holdings to everyone. Every node pairs a photograph from the collection with an archive reading that tells the story behind it, all set on beige paper with a fine spiral line and restrained whitespace. Single-file static page.
Reading room hours

Appends reading-room opening hours and instructions for requesting materials after the digitization chapter, turning the chronicle into a practical invitation to visit.

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Build a full-screen chronicle page for a photography archive, Fondazione Lume's Ninety Years of Photography: a spiral timeline glides from the founding to the present — the charter signed by twelve people in the room above a bookshop, the first travelling exhibition with forty prints packed into two wooden crates and sent by train to five city halls, a donor who arrives with three hundred after-dark negatives and stays to catalog them by hand, the studio archive that doubles the collection overnight, the first Silver Lens award, the Saturday school of seeing, a valley series shot over three summers until the valley sank beneath a reservoir, and the ongoing digitization that opens the holdings to everyone. Every node pairs a photograph from the collection with an archive reading that tells the story behind it, all set on beige paper with a fine spiral line and restrained whitespace. Single-file static page.