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Luigi Ghirri was an outstanding photographer and writer whose exceptionally rich and diverse career seems to offer a lesson in the contemporary history of photography. Although well known in his native Italy, Ghirri has not yet received the international recognition his work deserves—perhaps due to his untimely death. It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It, the first book devoted to Ghirri in the United States, will help to establish him as the major artist he was. With astonishing foresight, Ghirri shared the sensibility of the movements that would become New Color and New Topography in the United States, even before they were named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri considered the local and the universal to be inseparable, and the polarities of life—love and hate, present and past—to be equally fascinating. Unsurprisingly, his interests spanned all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi's studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing a whole generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new book includes a selection of Ghirri's essays published in English for the first time, as well as a selective chronology.
Aperture, 2008
152 pages
11.3 × 8.9 inches
ISBN 9781597110587
Luigi Ghirri was an outstanding photographer and writer whose exceptionally rich and diverse career seems to offer a lesson in the contemporary history of photography. Although well known in his native Italy, Ghirri has not yet received the international recognition his work deserves—perhaps due to his untimely death. It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It, the first book devoted to Ghirri in the United States, will help to establish him as the major artist he was. With astonishing foresight, Ghirri shared the sensibility of the movements that would become New Color and New Topography in the United States, even before they were named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri considered the local and the universal to be inseparable, and the polarities of life—love and hate, present and past—to be equally fascinating. Unsurprisingly, his interests spanned all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi's studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing a whole generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new book includes a selection of Ghirri's essays published in English for the first time, as well as a selective chronology.
Aperture, 2008
152 pages
11.3 × 8.9 inches
ISBN 9781597110587
