About Costică Acsinte
Born 4th of July, 1897 in a small village called Perieți, Ialomița County, Costică Acsinte fought in WWI. Despite his formation as a pilot, he was a official war photographer till 15th of June, 1920. As soon as the war was over he opened a studio — „Foto Splendid C. Acsinte“ in Slobozia town. Dies at 86, on 7th of January, 1984.
No Known Copyright Restrictions
In 1985, the Ialomița County History Museum aquires more than 5000 photographic plates made by Acsinte between 1935–1945. In 2007, the museum bought more than 300 prints taken during WW I. At 23rd of June, 1991 all his photographic work fell into Public Domain, as per Decret Lege nr 321/1956 and Lege nr 8/1996.
Suporters
The project of digitizing and long term archiving of Costică Acsinte photographs is supported by Ialomița County Museum and Atelierele Albe.
If you wish to help, please do contact us.
Stay in touch
Starting 10th of December 2013, Costică Acsinte Archive is a proud member of Flickr The Commons and all the photographs are uploaded there at as soon as we finish scanning. We also maintain a Facebook page of the project and a Twitter account. We monitor the hashtag #costicaacsinte.
Latest posts
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20180303
As some of you know, Costică Acsinte was a romanian army photographer. During those days, he took quite a lot of aerial shots. Here's the terracotta factory from Mărășești, before and after being bombarded: The photos are part of a new...
20171202
22 prints digitized from Ovidiu Ștefănescu’s personal collection
20171128
5 prints from Elena Bidocea’s personal collection scanned
20171030
Acsinte din casele noastre – Maura Aron
Openness
Although until now this project was financed with private money, we believe in full openness. So, there’s a small post about the procedures of digitizing the plates, there will be a small reference section, there’s a google spreadsheet with the most important data and another spreadsheet about the incurred expenses up to date.
Daily work
We digitize Acsinte’s photographs as soon as we can, usually on a daily basis. Whenever this happens, we publish on this site a short report. Also, the pictures on flickr are arranged in sets named after the day we finish the batch.
