Riccardo Domenico Peretti Griva Biography
Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva (Coassolo Torinese, 28 November 1882 – Turin, 12 July 1962) was an Italian photographer, magistrate and anti-fascist. In the arts, he was one of the main exponents of the Italian pictorialist movement in the world, in the period between 1920 and 1950. Trained in the Piedmont School of Artistic Photography, he proposed the concepts of pictorialism, focusing particularly on the theme of nature, until he followed the straight movement photography producing intimate portraits of the lower middle class of the period. Particularly fond of the bromide technique, where he intervened by manually retouching to accentuate the blur and contrast, he used the silver bromide technique less frequently. He exhibited frequently in Italy and abroad, ranking first among Italians in the 1950s according to Annual Photography estimates. As a jurist, he also published numerous volumes on law and pursued an important career as a magistrate: he was deputy commissioner of the purge after the Liberation, and first president of the Court of Appeal of Turin. Retired as honorary section president of the Court of Cassation.
