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Luigi Ghirri was an outstanding photographer and writer whose career, marked by exceptional richness and diversity, 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 dedicated to Ghirri in the United States, will help establish him as the major artist he was. With astonishing foresight, Ghirri shared the sensibility of the movements that would become the New Color and New Topography movements in the United States, even before they were named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri viewed the local and the universal as inseparable, and the polarities of life—love and hate, present and past—as equally fascinating. Unsurprisingly, his interests spanned all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi’s studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing an entire generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new volume includes a selection of Ghirri’s essays published in English for the first time, as well as a selective chronology.
Aperture, 2008
152 pages
28.75 × 22.35 cm
ISBN
Luigi Ghirri was an outstanding photographer and writer whose career, marked by exceptional richness and diversity, 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 dedicated to Ghirri in the United States, will help establish him as the major artist he was. With astonishing foresight, Ghirri shared the sensibility of the movements that would become the New Color and New Topography movements in the United States, even before they were named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri viewed the local and the universal as inseparable, and the polarities of life—love and hate, present and past—as equally fascinating. Unsurprisingly, his interests spanned all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi’s studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing an entire generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new volume includes a selection of Ghirri’s essays published in English for the first time, as well as a selective chronology.
Aperture, 2008
152 pages
28.75 × 22.35 cm
ISBN
