Ilario Carposio (Trento 1852 – Fiume 1921) was an artistical photographer, who owned an important studio in Fiume, the coastal town now called Rijeka, Croatia. He was citizen of Austro-Hungarian Empire, but his mother tongue was Italian. The studio was opened in 1878 and rapidly became renamed and appreciated. Ilario Carposio received several official awards, among them the first prize in Austro-Hungarian agro-industrial exposition (Trieste, 1882). After Ilario’s death, the studio continued to work, thanks to Ilario’s son Renato Carposio (1886-1930) and his wife Maruzza. The activity ceased only in 1947, after the second WW and the important political changes (Fiume/Rijeka was assigned to Jugoslavia and most of the Italian population went away). Ilario Carposio had seven sons, among them Enrico Carposio (1887-1980), who was an outstanding professor of Mathematics and Physics in Fiume and in Bologna. Recently (April-May 2004) two expositions held, respectively, in Rijeka and Zagreb, have renewed the interest of the public towards the old nice photos of Ilario Carposio. http://digilander.iol.it/comunedifiume/immagini/carposio.jpg