Fotografi italiani in Grecia nel diciannovesimo secolo. (Italian photographers in Greece, in the 19th century)

Foreign photographers visited Greece owing to its antiquity. Among the first
were Italian, especially on the Ionic Isles. Agusto Colla and Bartomeo Borri
were the first known Italians working and living there. About Colla's
activities a lot is known. He made i.a. an album with 20 images of Korfu in
1857. When in 1864, the Ionic Isles became part of Greece, Colla could
exposition in Athens. He did partake to various International Exhibitions.
Borri, also a photographer of Korfu, opened a studio there and is known of his
landscapes. Other names mentioned: the brothers Marinelli (Korfu), Guiseppe
Berinda and Battista Anselmi (Crete), J. Moriglioni (Northern Greece). Besides
Italians working and living in Greece, others did jobs on Greece: Felice Beato,
the brothers Alinari and Giorgio Sommer. Conclusion of the author: all these
Italian photographers did outstanding work considering there participation to
several foreign expositions. (Italian)