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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
The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti: stage photo	Weiss, Jacques jr	FOTO03315	1960
The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti: stage photo	Weiss, Jacques jr	FOTO03316	1960
Ricordi store in Genoa	Bovio	FOTO02730	1960
Ricordi store in Genoa	Del Boccio	FOTO02802	1960
Ricordi new store in Via Battisti (P.za Venezia), Rome	Poletto, Giovan Battista	FOTO02623	1961
Ricordi new store in Via Battisti (P.za Venezia), Rome	Poletto, Giovan Battista	FOTO03185	1961
From the left: Edoardo Sanguineti, Dacia Maraini, Alberto Moravia and Inge Feltrinelli, Foyer of Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Grand Prix Formentor 1962	Labruzzo	FOTO02472	1962
Dragan Lakovitch in the role of Neurasthenic, Belgrade, 1962	Moysilovitch	FOTO03261	1962
Fernando Previtali directing the Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra at Zurich Tonhalle	Hennch, Klaus	FOTO02921	1963
Ella Fitzgerald during a concert	Mulas, Ugo	FOTO02479	1964