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ROBERT RIVE, The photographer

 

Robert Rive was born in Great Britain.

He developed most of his work in Italy. After several years working in this country he changed his name to Roberto Rive.

Highlights of his work are the photos from Pompei and Rome.

Rive exhibited at the 10 th. Annual Exhibition of the Photographie

Robert Rive worked as a topographical and portrait photographer  from the beginning of the 1860`s until 1889 in Naples.  In 1867 he took part at the Exposition Universelle of Paris. His studio produced views and stereographs of many Italian cities.

He took photographs of monuments of Naples, Pompei, Sorrento, Capri , Amalfi and  monuments of Sicily. He also tooks photographs of cities as Florence, Pisa, Siena, Roma and Genova. He patented a photosensitive paper used in Southern Italy.
Studios in Naples, Palazzo Serracapriola, Palazzo Lieti.

 

See also:

• The Courtauld Instutite, among others, has photos from this photographer - (search for Rive).

• Harvard University Art Museums

• Musee D`Orsay

• The University of Michigan Museum of Art

• Museo di Roma

• Getty
  From http://www.senato.it/documenti/repository/eventi/med/pagina06.htm  you can read:

"... in Naples, Giorgio Sommer and Robert Rive began a systematic census of the monuments and daily life, in an amazing collection that provided information on Campania and Sicily. It was then that the pictures of Vesuvius and Etna proliferated and were added to the views so appreciated by tourists up to then..."

 

 

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