Background information
"Luigi GHIRRI (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions.
Content
Published for the first time in English, 'The Complete Essays 1973–1991' comprises sixty-eight texts in which Luigi 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." (© Mack Books, 2016)About the Italian photographer, Luigi GHIRRI (1943-1992)
Photo books by and on the work of Luigi GHIRRI
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 23 x 2 cm., 240 pp., 50 color ills., text language: English