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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
Ferruccio Busoni	Fischer Schneevoigt, Siri	FOTO00562	1890
Emilio Zago	Coen, Achille	FOTO02760	1890
Adelina Stehle Garbin		FOTO02577	1904
Zorah Dorly	Boissonnas, Frédéric	FOTO02723	1908
Irene Minghini Cattaneo	Bazzoni, Albino	FOTO02675	1920
Cesare Nordio	Fayer	FOTO01368	1930
Richard Tauber	Gudenberg	FOTO02910	1930
Licinio Refice	Braulin	FOTO00153	1937
Guido Guerrini	Foto Fiorenza	FOTO01334	1940
Tommaso Alati	Del Mare	FOTO00535	1953