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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
M.lle Angelo	Nadar, Félix	FOTO02235	1875
Mlle Antonine	Nadar, Félix	FOTO02247	1875
Sophie Croizette	Nadar, Félix	FOTO03024	1880
Gilda Ruta	F.lli Russo	FOTO00980	1885
Felix Weingartner	Bieber, Emilie	FOTO02162	1890
Philipp Scharwenka	Kleitsch, Karl	FOTO03187	1890
Ferruccio Busoni	Fischer Schneevoigt, Siri	FOTO00562	1890
Jacopo Calascione	Mazza	FOTO02999	1891
Max Schillings	Perscheid, Nicola	FOTO03212	1900
Adelina Stehle Garbin		FOTO02577	1904