Vittorio Chiusoli was a photographer active in Ravenna from 1892 onward. After graduating in
Medicine from the University of Bologna, he moved to Ravenna, where he worked at the Civic Hospital while pursuing his interest in photography – a practice he maintained alongside his medical career. The Vittorio Chiusoli photographic archive is preserved at the Classense Library. It comprises a total of 235 photographs and postcards, produced using albumen or gelatin silver print techniques. Chiusoli’s subjects are varied spanning from Ravenna’s monuments and portraits of people to landscapes and views of various locations, as well as scenes of social and family life. In some photographs – not taken by him – he appears himself.
Although he was an amateur photographer, his collection offers important evidence of Ravenna of the 20th century and of the daily life of that period.
