Luigi Ghirri : cardboard landscapes : photographs from 1971-73 / with a note on the facsimile edition by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Main entry:

Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992, artist.

Title & Author:

Luigi Ghirri : cardboard landscapes : photographs from 1971-73 / with a note on the facsimile edition by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Publication:

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2020.

Description:

105 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm

Notes:
Title from page 101.
Title from title page following the facsimile (page 101).
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

"A handsome facsimile of conceptualist Luigi Ghirri's poetic narrative of 1970s pop culture. Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-92) made Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone) during his travels around Europe, coining the term 'sentimental geography' to describe his unique artistic approach of examining the ordinary to prove it remarkable. The original handmade album features over 100 chromogenic color prints pasted onto the pages of a blank book and was gifted by Ghirri to John Szarkowski, then the Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, in the 1970s. A singular work of art, Cardboard Landscapes is now being published for the first time. The collection is an anomaly within Ghirri's overall oeuvre, as it prioritizes complex composition rather than the sweeping tableaux for which he is best known. In this series of works, he regards the printed image as the subject, framing a kaleidoscope of photographs and advertisements to tell a poetic visual narrative that reflects at once regional, personal and popular culture, revealing a fascinating impulse to investigate his role within his own medium."--Brookline Booksmith website (viewed on October 7, 2020)

ISBN:

9781633451025 (hardcover)
163345102X (hardcover)

Subject:

Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992.
Ghirri, Luigi.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Photography Artistic.

Added entries:

Meister, Sarah Hermanson, writer of added commentary.
Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992. Paesaggi di cartone
Meister, Sarah Hermanson writer of added commentary.

Cardboard landscapes

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308777
Call No.: BIB 254108
Status: Available

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