The Giuseppe Pino Photographic Archive has been declared to be of particularly important cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture, pursuant to the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code (Legislative Decree 42/2004) prot. SAB_LM|30/06/2025|DECRETO 30
The photographic treasure of Giuseppe Pino
On September 13, 2022, Giuseppe Pino passed away. He is recognized as one of the greatest Italian photographers of the second half of the 20th century.
His important archive has been placed under the protection of the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage as Italian cultural heritage.
To re-evaluate and preserve the memory of a fundamental work forgotten by many, the archive has found its ideal home at Superstudio 13 on via Forcella in Milan, a place of excellence for national and international photographic culture.
Symbolic coincidence: He died on the 13th and now his artistic legacy finds a home at number 13.
Pier Paolo Pitacco currently serves as the art director of the archive.
The Archive
(The Bequest and the Ministerial Restriction)
The Heritage and the Superintendency Restriction
Released to the heirs on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, the archive was officially declared by the Ministry of Culture (Superintendency Department of Lombardy) to be of particularly important interest with the “Decree of interest Compendium Giuseppe Pino”, placing it under restriction and protection as a property of historical interest.
Archive composition:



A DVD collection of the films that made cinema history.

The corpus documents the extraordinary international overview of the figures portrayed from the 1960s to the 2000s, configuring itself not as a simple physiognomic reproduction, but as a profound artistic and authorship-driven interpretation.
Photography categories:
Jazz
Artistic Nudes
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Written about Giuseppe Pino:
2014
- The Way there were Portraits and Stories from 20th Century, Damiani.
2013
- Through the Eyes of Others. Roberto Mutti's Photographic Collection, ASAV, Seriate.
- Through the Eyes of Others, Municipal Palace, Seriate (group exhibition), curated by Roberto Mutti.
2011
- Music Box, Contrasto Due, Rome (collective publication).
2009
- The Century of Jazz, CCCB, Barcelona (exhibition).
2008
- The Jazz Century, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (group exhibition).
- The Age of Jazz, MART, Rovereto (exhibition), curated by Daniel Soutif.
2007
- "The Diaphragm" by Lanfranco Colombo. An Italian Story, Centrale Montemartini, Rome (group exhibition).
2005
- Black and Blues, Edel Classics, Hamburg.
- Sax!, Edel Classics, Hamburg.
- Déjà Vu – Déjà Nu, Bel Vedere, Milan.
- The Masters of Photography. Lanfranco Colombo's Il Diaframma, 3M Foundation, Milan.
- Déjà Vu – Déjà Nu, Galleria Bel Vedere, Milan (exhibition), curated by Roberto Mutti.
- "The Diaphragm" by Lanfranco Colombo. An Italian Story, Guggenheim Museum, Venice (group exhibition).
2004
- Love My Jazz, Edel Classics, Hamburg.
- Portraits 1964–1998, Municipality of Padua.
2003
- The Photon, Contrasto, Rome.
- Jazz, My Love, Trastevere Museum, Rome (exhibition).
- Portraits 1964–1988, Museo Civico del Santo, Padua (exhibition), curated by Enrico Gusella and Serena Baccaglini.
2002
- Jazz, My Love, Contrasto Due, Rome / Schirmer & Mosel, Munich / Vade Retro, Paris.
1999
- Two, La Grafica, Cantù.
1997
- Jazz Calendar, La Grafica, Cantù.
1996
- Through the Eyes of Others, Santa Maria Gualtieri, Pavia (group exhibition).
1995
- Film Calendar, La Grafica, Cantù.
1994
- Jazz, My Love, Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich (exhibition).
- Italian Photographers: An Imaginary Diary by Lanfranco Colombo, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (exhibition), curated by Lanfranco Colombo.
1993
- 7×7 deadly sins. 49 contemporary photographic meditations, Nodolibri, Como.
- The Kiss, World Action Project, Verona.
- Giuseppe Pino Special, Photos, Milan.
- Italian Photographers: An Imaginary Diary by Lanfranco Colombo, Edizioni Bolis, Bergamo.
- Jazz, My Love, Galleria L’Affiche, Milan (exhibition).
- Jazz, My Love, Lowe Art Museum, Miami (exhibition).
- Portraits, Bocconi University, Milan (exhibition), curated by Toni Nicolini.
- The Kiss, Juliet's House, Verona (group exhibition).
- Phototransfer, Tuscany Photo Festival, Massa Marittima (group exhibition).
- 7×7 deadly sins. 49 contemporary photographic meditations, State Archives, Milan (group exhibition), curated by Roberto Mutti.
1992
- Image and Industry, Class Editori, Milan.
- Black and White, Photomeeting, San Marino (group exhibition).
- The Eye of Others, IF Photographic Image, Milan (exhibition).
- Double Shot: The 1960s Idea in the Images of Italian Photographers, Curno (group exhibition).
- Sixties and Around: The Idea of the 1960s in the Images of Italian Photographers, ViaVico, Milan (group exhibition).
1991
- Jazz Faces, Foto Italia Expo, Gorizia (exhibition).
- Jazz, My Love, Music Festival, Montreux (exhibition).
1990
- Jazz Image, Kimball’s East, San Francisco (group exhibition).
1989
- D’Urban Jazz Calendar, Tokyo.
1988
- Traveling exhibition, WCPP International Exhibit, Tokyo (group exhibition).
1987
- Portraits of Italian creatives, Paravia Bookstore, Milan (exhibition).
- Furniture, Salone del Mobile, Milan (1987–1994).
- Furniture, Salone del Mobile, Cologne (1987–1994).
- Photography: profession and leisure, Modern Art Gallery, Bologna (exhibition).
- Artists in New York, Terrasini Photo Festival, Palermo (group exhibition).
- Portraits, SICOF, Milan (group exhibition).
- Portraits, Torino Fotografia, Turin (group exhibition).
1986
- Artists in New York, Photo Versilia ’86, Pietrasanta (exhibition).
1985
- Comparisons, Overstudio, Turin.
- Comparisons, Over Studio, Turin (exhibition).
1983
- The Great Photographers. Giuseppe Pino, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Milan.
- Jazz and Photography (+ manifesto), Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (group exhibition).
1982
- Modern Masters, Central Falls, New York (group exhibition).
1981
- Giuseppe Pino / Henri Matisse, Museum of Fine Arts, Valence (exhibition).
- Masters of Portrait Photography. Giuseppe Pino, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (exhibition).
1980
- Giuseppe Pino, Maison de la Culture, Grenoble (exhibition).
1979
- From Spiritual to Swing, International Booking Agency, Montreux.
- From Spiritual to Swing, Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne (exhibition).
- Photography and New Theatre, SICOF, Milan (group exhibition).
- The portrait, SICOF, Milan (group exhibition).
- Self-portrait, Nikon Gallery, Zurich (group exhibition).
- The Italian Eye, Alternative Center of International Art, New York (group exhibition).
1978
- Jazz musician portraits, Nikon Photogalerie, Zurich (exhibition).
- Fashion & Photography, Galleria Il Diaframma, Milan (exhibition).
1977
- Living with a City, Kulturhaus, Graz (group exhibition).
- The eye of Milan, Rotonda di Via Besana, Milan (group exhibition).
- Jazz musicians, Canon Photo Gallery, Geneva (exhibition).
1976
- Montreux Jazz, Editions de la Tour, Lausanne.
- Jazz Musicians, Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam (exhibition).
- Jazz Portraits, Casino de Montreux (exhibition).
- Jazz Portraits, Documenta, Turin (exhibition).
- Jazz Portrait, Nadar Gallery, Pisa (exhibition).
- Jazz, Harzé Photography Festival, Belgium (group exhibition).
- Identity search, Arte Fiera, Bologna (group exhibition).
1975
- Jazz musicians, Galleria Il Diaframma, Milan (exhibition).
1973
- Look at Me, Galleria Il Diaframma, Milan (exhibition), curated by Angelo Schwarz.
- Portraits, Discovery Gallery, New York (exhibition).
1972
- Jazz, Conservatory of Music, Milan (exhibition).
- Jazz, Jazz Festival, Chateauvallon (exhibition).
1971
- Jazz musicians, SICOF, Milan (exhibition).
1970
- Jazz, Teatro Lirico, Milan (exhibition).
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