It's beautiful here, isn't it...

Luigi Ghirri

151 pages, parution le 01/06/2008

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Résumé

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 merits-perhaps because he died so young. It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It-the 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 life's polarities-love and hate, present and past-were equally compelling. Not surprisingly, his interests encompassed all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi's 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 Ghirri's essays published in English for the first time as well as a selected chronology.

This project was made possible, in part, through the generosity of Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Additional support was provided by Joseph T. Baio, Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla, Lynne and Harold Honickman, and Mercedes Menocal Gregoire.

Sommaire

Luigi Ghirri and this indefinable essay by Germano Celant
Plates
An infinite encounter notes by Paola Ghirri
Selected writings by Luigi Ghirri
Chronology by Elena Re
Acknowledgments
Contributors

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Aperture
Auteur(s)	Luigi Ghirri
Parution	01/06/2008
Nb. de pages	151
Format	29 x 22
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1201g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9781597110587
ISBN13	978-1-59711-058-7