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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
Vittorio Gnecchi	Braulin, Carlo	FOTO02737	1920
Maffeo Zanon, 1926	Fot.Paganini	FOTO01631	1926
Cesare Nordio	Fayer	FOTO01368	1930
Renzo Massarani	Pacheco, J.	FOTO03062	1930
Antonio Veretti	Parolin, F.	FOTO00824	1930
Richard Tauber	Gudenberg	FOTO02910	1930
Giuseppe Ramella	Balestro, Gigi	FOTO03233	1934
Francesco Santoliquido	Toncker	FOTO03129	1935
Arrigo Pedrollo	Foto Vajenti	FOTO01353	1940
Vieri Tosatti	Contini, Max Alberto	FOTO01364	1940