• Archivio GBB

Portfolio

ringling-bros-and-barnum-and-bailey-circus Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. USA, 1940 ca
1970-s-usa-swimming-pool Swimming pool. USA, Seventies.
1920-ca-usa-fake-photograph Fake fhotograph showing a man falling from the plane. California, 1920 ca
harald-kreutzberg-1902-1968 The avantgarde German dancer, choreographer and film actor Harald Kreutzberg. Berlin, Germany, 1934 ca
gbb_archivio_2021_011 Dance reformer Ted Shawn. 1928 ca
lyda-borelli-1884-1960 The silent screen diva Lyda Borelli. 1915 ca
marilyn-monroe-1926-1962 Marilyn Monroe dancing with Truman Capote. USA, 1955
1910-ca-nantes-france Unidentified folkloristic French theater actor wearing a woman's dress. Nantes, France, 1910 ca
malcolm-macgregor-and-daughter-joan Former Yale athlete Malcolm MacGregor with his daughter Joan. New York, USA, 1925
rudolph-valentino-1895-1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent movie actor, on the cover of Brazilian magazine Cine Arte. Brazil, 1926
adolfo-farsari-1841-1898 Painted photo print by Farsari Studio. Yokohama, Japan, 1885 ca
king-george-vi-of-england The Duke George of York on his roundabout merry-go-round during a charity party. London, England, 1922

ARCHIVIO GBB is an historical photo archive, one of the largest private collections of vintage photographs in Italy, and it is made available for different use, not only for editorial publications.
Over the last few decades, ARCHIVIO GBB has been collecting many rare images. Not only does the archive include material by famous Italian photographers at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a preference for pictures from noble family albums, but also casual, vernacular, or bizarre pictures by amateur photographers, selected because of their particular quality, cultural or graphical & iconic value. For ARCHIVIO GBB a beautiful image must not necessarily be the work of some celebrated photographer: rather, an “interesting” historic image, although anonymous or amateurial, deserves attention if it shows technical or formal qualities.
Currently the digital on-line archive contains 27,000 images (but the full archive contains around 200,000 printed pictures). Upon client request it is possible to run a specific research in the physical archive to meet the need of any “want-list” of images. Although if the archive is in Italy, many historic images are relative to facts and people of World historical relevance, whether in Cinema, Arts, Politics, Science, Sports, Music and Culture.