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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
Corrado Pasquotti	Del Puppo	FOTO01955	1985
Aurelio Samorì	Scifi	FOTO02094	1985
Azio Corghi	Molteni, Giuseppe	FOTO02460	1985
Gerard Brophy	Sinclair, Peter	FOTO03116	1985
The composer Luciano Chailly with his son Riccardo, conductor	Wilhelm, Guido	FOTO03178	1985
Luciano Berio, 1985	Levin, Hillary	FOTO03271	1985
Luigi Nono	Chianura, Mimmo	FOTO01833	1988
Luciano Berio, Paris 1988	Guy, Vivien	FOTO03264	1988
Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti, stage photo	Buscarino, Maurizio	FOTO03295	1989
La Bohème, Act 2, stage photo	Capellini, Lorenzo	FOTO03321	1989