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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
Antonio Arnao	Clero	FOTO02263	1870
Tommaso Benvenuti	Pagliano, Leonida	FOTO02438	1870
Charles Kensington Salaman	Window & Grove	FOTO03180	1870
Ercole Folegatti	Lindehmer	FOTO02949	1870
Vincenzo Mattaress	Lopes	FOTO02964	1870
Antonio Biferno	Burroni, Eugenio	FOTO00296	1870
Giovanni Vizzani	Lombardi	FOTO02963	1872
Man portrait	Raimondi, B.	FOTO02409	1873
Carl Kölling	Benque e Kindermann	FOTO02691	1874
M.lle Angelo	Nadar, Félix	FOTO02235	1875