Luigi Ghirri

by Ghirri, Luigi

• ISBN13: 9781597110587
• ISBN10: 1597110582
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Aperture

Summary

Luigi Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well-known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have the international audience his work meritsperhaps because he died so young. Its Beautiful Here, Isnt Itthe first book published on Ghirri in the U.S.will establish him as the seminal artist he was. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known in the U.S. as the New Color and the New Topographics movements before they had even been named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri believed the local and the universal were inseparable, and that lifes polaritieslove and hate, present and past were equally compelling. Not surprisingly, his interests encompassed all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandis studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing a generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new book includes a selection of Ghirris essays published in English for the first time as well as a selected chronology.

Table of Contents

Some Thoughts on Luigi Ghirri: Preface	p. 9
Luigi Ghirri and the Indefinable: Essay	p. 12
Plates	p. 20
An Infinite Encounter: Notes	p. 108
Selected Writings by Luigi Ghirri
Kodachrome: Introduction	p. 111
Landscapes Without a Frame: Beyond the Yellow House	p. 112
Endless Worlds: On William Eggleston	p. 114
The Open Work	p. 117
The World Caressed by Walker Evans	p. 120
Italy by Night	p. 122
There is Nothing Old Under the Sun (I)	p. 122
For an Idea of Landscape	p. 123
The Clouds in the Sky of Pat Garrett's Life	p. 124
For Aldo Rossi	p. 124
There Is Nothing Old Under the Sun (I)	p. 127
Italian Landscape	p. 128
Like a Song of the Earth	p. 129
The Impossible Landscape	p. 131
Chronology	p. 132
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