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Ghirri, Luigi

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From 1970 Luigi Ghirri roamed around the houses, streets, squares and suburbs in his adoptive town of Modena and built a body of early work which contains within it signposts to many of the directions his practice would subsequently take. Most of the time he worked in Modena, only occasionally travelling further afield to the beaches of Rimini on the Adriatic or the Swiss Lakes. He began to map out projects and themes ? some specifically grouped around a subject, others gathered around a more poetic organising principle. One of the latter was 'Colazione sull?Erba' ('Breakfast on the Grass') in which he bought together photographs made between 1972 and 1974 on the outskirts of Modena which he states he ?visited in an ironic and anxious manner?. His focus was the juncture of nature and artifice in the man-made environment; the symmetries of cypress trees, well-kept lawns, the personalising touch of plants in pots, palm trees and cacti with their promise of somewhere else. Modelled on 'Kodachrome', Ghirri's seminal paean to photography which he self-published in 1978, this volume is the first book in a planned series which will take Ghirris original categories for his own work as the basis for a collection elaborating the great photographer's oeuvre.

Ghirri, Luigi, --- Modena (Italy)

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"Published for the first time in English, The Complete Essays 1973-1991 comprises sixty-eight texts in which Ghirri explores the same subjects at the core of his photographs--the themes of identity, time, memory, vision, representation, and sense of place. As a voracious reader with a particular taste for the eclectic, Ghirri also reaches outwards from his own practice to explore the history of photography as he considers the work of Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Robert Adams and John Gossage, weaving in references to musicians, writers and painters alike. As themes and ideas overlap, the compilation of texts create a sort of dialectic chamber of curiosities that includes Gulliver, Van Gogh's yellow house, Cézanne, Morandi's studio, Mallarmé, the fireworks above Trani Cathedral, neo-realist films, lots of music, Francis Bacon, McLuhan's global village, Pessoa, poetry. Together, the essays offer an unintentional yet comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography, and above all, they constitute a special form of autobiography."

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Art, Modern --- Photography, Artistic --- Ghirri, Luigi,