Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992, photographer.

Luigi Ghirri : colazione sull'erba / texts, Massimo Mussini, Roberto Salbitani and Francesco Zanot.

First edition.

[London] : MACK, [2019]
©2019

174 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm

"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 Ghirri's original categories for his own work as the basis for a collection elaborating the great photographer's oeuvre."

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Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992.
Photography, Artistic 20th century.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie
Modena (Italy) Pictorial works.
Italy Modena

Exhibition catalogs.
photobooks.
Pictorial works
Photobooks
Livres de photographies.

Mussini, Massimo, writer of supplementary textual content.
Salbitani, Roberto, writer of supplementary textual content.
Zanot, Francesco, writer of supplementary textual content.
Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992. Photographs. Selections.
Luigi Ghirri.
Luigi Ghirri. English.
Luigi Ghirri. German.
Luigi Ghirri. French.

Colazione sull'erba

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 305543
Cote: BIB 251509
Statut: Disponible