Source: Empordà .info 2017-05-26
It allows visitors to travel back to the early days of photography and its evolution and admire unpublished material of great value
Peralada Castle Library opens the ‘Photographic Archive of Palaci’ exhibition this Saturday at 11 am. The display offers visitors the chance to travel back to the early days of photography and gain a better understanding of how it evolved. With pieces from the Empordà Technical Museum, the exhibition includes a selection of albumen prints, most notably the Àlbum dels Comtes [Album of the Counts], made between 1886 and 1893 by Count Tomàs de Rocabertí.
Visitors to the exhibition, which is curated by Inés Padrosa, will have the opportunity to view material relating to the beginnings of photography, such as optical viewfinders and the evolution of the technique from 1876 up until the 1960s. Outstanding among the items is a series of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cameras and various pieces of photographic material such as negatives, glass plates, stereoscopic plates, glass slides and acetate negatives, as well as ephemeral material such as the printing wrappers of various commercial businesses.