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Photographs

Collection

The Photographic Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi originated during the second half of the 1800s and covers the whole of the 1900s, counting thousands of items thanks mainly to the interest shown by Giulio Ricordi for this new artform. Photography had become an increasingly indispensable medium within an editor’s production system, as evidenced by Casa Ricordi’s early periodicals such as Musica e Musicisti and Ars et Labor. This section includes a list of the nearly 900 photographic studios that collaborated with Ricordi, including many of the national and international big names in photography.

The luthier Luigi Paganini with M°Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla, photograph by Battista Canè, Forlì, early 1900s

On focus

Giuseppe Verdi davanti alla casa di Giulio Ricordi

Achille Ferrario

Giacomo Puccini

Attilio Badodi

Sarah Bernhardt nel ruolo di Tosca

Félix Nadar

Ottorino Respighi

Ghitta Carell

Ella Fitzgerald

Ugo Mulas

Daria Farini

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Description	Author	ID	Date
Man portrait with mandolin	Duroni & Murer	FOTO02349	1892
Rudolf Prochazka	Eckert, H.	FOTO02828	1895
Domenico Bellando	Rossi, Ernesto	FOTO02415	1905
Renato Avena	Franchini, P.	FOTO00040	1905
Man portrait	Mayer & Pierson	FOTO02394
Amanda Palma	Erwin	FOTO02590
Jenö Hubay	Schulz, Carl	FOTO03109
Manfredo Maggioni	Silvy, Camille	FOTO03115
Cardarelli	Armoni Raffaelli, Luigi	FOTO02653
Enea Elia	Bachmann, Antonio	FOTO02665