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Marina Spunta • Jacopo Benci (eds)
Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Oxford, 2017. LVI, 308 pp., 8 coloured ill.
Italian Modernities. Vol. 27
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T
he photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was one of the
most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth cen-
tury. This volume – the first scholarly book-length pu-
blication on Ghirri to appear in English – introduces his photo-
graphic and critical work to a broader audience and positions
Ghirri as a key voice within global artistic debates. It breaks new
ground by approaching Ghirri’s œuvre from a wide range of in-
terdisciplinary perspectives, in order to take account of the
breadth of his interests, the variety of his projects and the far-
reaching impact of his work as a practitioner, writer, theorist and
curator, both in the field of photography and beyond. Drawing
on different approaches from disciplines including art history,
theory of photography, literary and cultural studies, architec-
ture, cartography, and place and landscape studies, the essays in
the volume show how Ghirri redefined contemporary photogra-
phy and helped shape the «spatial» or «landscape» turn in Italy
and further afield.
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CONTENTS: Marina Spunta/Jacopo Benci: Introduction: Re-sit-
ing Luigi Ghirri • Giuliano Sergio: Luigi Ghirri, Minimal Jour-
neys: Icons, Landscapes, Architectures • Nicoletta Leonardi: Be
tween Reality and Representation: The Souvenir Function of Lu-
igi Ghirri’s Photographic Trompe-l’œils • Paolo Barbaro: Luigi
Ghirri’s Photography from the 1970s to the 1980s: The Working
Image, the Artistic Language • Laura Gasparini: Luigi Ghirri be
tween Research and Curatorial Activity • Jacopo Benci: On Some
Hitherto Overlooked Sources of Luigi Ghirri’s Work, 1972–1982 •
Tania Rossetto: Luigi Ghirri’s Cartographic Portrayals: A Review
through Map Theory • Matteo Cassani Simonetti: Words, Image,
Architecture: Vittorio Savi and Luigi Ghirri • Raffaella Perna:
Landscapes in Music: Luigi Ghirri and Record Covers • Anna Botta:
Of Fireflies and Photography: Pasolini, Didi-Huberman, Ghirri •
Marina Spunta: Narrating the Experience of Place: Luigi Ghirri
and Literature • Epifanio Ajello: The Photographer and the Pain-
ter: Some Observations around the Things of Giorgio Morandi
and Luigi Ghirri.
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