Main entry:

Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992, author.

Title & Author:

The complete essays 1973-1991 / Luigi Ghirri ; translated by Ben Bazalgette and Marguerite Shore ; edited by Michael Mack and Izabella Scott.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2016]

Description:

239 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published in Italian as Niente di antico sotto il sole, 1977.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239).
Cardboard landscapes -- Kodachrome : introduction -- Photographs from my early years -- Kodachrome -- Colazione sull'erba -- Catalogue -- 0.25 km -- f/11, 1/125, natural light -- Atlas -- Views -- Italia ailati -- The land of toys -- [Infinity symbol] Infinity -- In scale -- Identikit -- Still-life -- Introduction -- King Midas in a blind alley -- Still-life : topography-iconography -- After 10 years of photography -- Endless worlds : on William Eggleston -- A minimal adventure -- Landscapes without a frame : beyond the yellow house -- Album -- Vincenzo Castella -- Franco Vimercati -- Photography : an open gaze -- Photography : from the river to the sea -- On the road to Venice -- The world caressed by Walker Evans -- The slaughter of the innocents or the sandcastle -- The portable seashell -- The open work -- Photography and representing the outside -- There is nothing old under the sun (1) -- How to look at it : from the road ... -- For an idea of landscape -- Italy by night -- Thoughts on Jacques-Henri Lartgue -- America in Venice, as signed by Adams and Gossage -- The vanishing point -- A gate onto the river -- The objective in vision -- Adams' world -- On the road with Dylan -- The clouds in the sky of Pat Garrett's life -- Thinking of a necessary image -- The enigma of photography -- Daydreams -- The diffuse museum -- For Aldo Rossi -- Through the villages -- The restless gaze : an anthology of sentiments -- There is nothing old under the sun (2) -- One foot in Eden -- The tale of our present -- From Contarina to Prince -- Images for music -- Like a song of the earth -- Italian landscape -- History of photography -- The impossible landscape -- House, bridge, gate ... -- The doing of things -- View from the car window -- The sweet letters -- A light on the wall -- The shipping forecast.
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"Published for the first time in English, The Complete Essays 1973-1991 comprises sixty-eight texts in which 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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781910164143 (paperback)
1910164143 (paperback)

Subject:

Ghirri, Luigi 1943-1992
Ghirri, Luigi.
Photographic criticism.
Photography, Artistic.
Critique photographique.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Photography.
Fotografie
Schrifttum

Added entries:

Bazalgette, Ben.
Shore, Marguerite.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292951
Call No.: BIB 237528
Status: External loan