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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
Concert set by Casa Ricordi in the Pinacoteca di Brera hall, Milan	Perrucci, E.	FOTO03066	1950
Ricordi store, Via Berchet, Milan: shop window	Roto	FOTO03202	1950
Ricordi store in Via Berchet, Milan	Mella, Federico	FOTO03331	1950
Ricordi store in Paris, general director offices	Berger Mitropress, Léo	FOTO02698	1950
Ricordi offices in New York	De Narde	FOTO02786	1950
Ricordi offices in New York	De Narde	FOTO02787	1950
Ricordi store in Milan, Via Berchet	Fortunati	FOTO02850	1950
Presentation of movie 'Casa Ricordi' , directed by Carmine Gallone, cinema Astra, Milan: Gina Origoni Ricordi with Eugenio Clausetti and Micheline Presle	Astrofoto	FOTO02658	1954
Booth of Casa Ricordi in Trieste Fair, 1954	Avanzo	FOTO02664	1954
Franco Crepax at booth of Casa Ricordi in Trieste Fair	De Rota, Adriano	FOTO02792	1954