colaimages.com

colaimages.com is a stock photography archive specializing in licensing the use of digital images of original vintage photographs dating from 1900 to the 1980s. it stems from the idea of marco colazingari, an enthusiast collector of vntage photographs, whose goal is to provide digitalized images to the public. the authors of the photographic collection are both professional photographers of the golden age of photojournalism and amateur photographers. most of them are unknown, but nevertheless effective in representing the real spirit of their time. the old images portray the way we were, documenting the history of the 20th century through its characteristic fashions, trends, icons, lifestyles, and social, economic and political events. the focus is on the western civilization: italy, united states, denmark, france, spain, germany, switzerland, and the united kingdom are, in decreasing order, the dominant countries of origin of the vintage photographs included in the photographic archiv