Item 0002 (1956) - Photographs of Charikleia Cavafy

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GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S03-F26-SF002-0002 (1956)

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Photographs of Charikleia Cavafy

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10.5 x 6 cm

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Giuseppe Marzocchini & Figlio

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Photographic studio in Livorno (Italy). Giuseppe Marzocchini (1802-1865) established the first photographic workshop in Livorno. Around 1843, he started working with daguerreotypes and, since 1860, he collaborated with his son, Ricardo. After Ricardo’s death in 1910, the business was taken over by his grandson Vittorio Ezio Marzocchini, who run the studio until the mid-1920s.

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Onassis Foundation

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Two undated photographs of Charikleia Cavafy from a photo shop in Livorno, taken during the same photo shoot. Charikleia is wearing a long dress with a hoop skirt. On one of the photographs, she is depicted in frontal view, sitting in a chair; in the other she is standing, in profile view, resting her right arm on an armchair. The photographs should be dated to the 1860's, as a photograph of the Cavafy brothers at a young age, from the same photo shop, has been dated by the poet to 1865.

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      Italian

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      Giuseppe Marzocchini & Figlio. “Photographs of Charikleia Cavafy”. Photograph, n.d.. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S03-F26-SF002-0002 (1956), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF02-S03-F26-SF002-0002.

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