The National Cinema Museum is participating in the second edition of the MEMORANDUM Festival of Historical Photography with a small exhibition on Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva, whose collection it recently acquired thanks to a donation from his daughter, Maria Teresa.

The National Cinema Museum is participating in the second edition of the MEMORANDUM Festival of Historical Photography – which will run from 19 February to 27 March 2011 at Turin’s Regional Museum of Natural Sciences (MRSN) – with a small section on the historical Piedmontese photographs of Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva, whose collection it recently acquired thanks to a donation from his daughter Maria Teresa. The exhibition, entitled Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva, a passion for photography has been organised by Giovanna Galante Garrone and Chiara Maraghini Garrone in partnership with the National Cinema Museum.

The exhibition will be open every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., except on Tuesdays. Admission: €5.00, discounts €2.50.

Peretti Griva – a magistrate and the first President of Turin’s court of appeal – was a brilliant amateur who proved himself one of the European masters of pictorial photography, thereby asserting photography’s status as an art. His work is one of the most important examples of Italian photography and crossed national borders for many exhibitions from the 1920s on. Peretti Griva’s personal archive – a collection of over 19,000 photographs – was recently donated to the National Cinema Museum by his daughter Maria Teresa.