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

The complete essays, 1973-1991 / Luigi Ghirri ; translated by Ben Bazalgette and Marguerite Shore ; edited by Michael Mack and Izabella Scott.
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ISBN 9781910164143
1910164143
Name Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992 author.
Uniform title Niente di antico sotto il sole English
Title The complete essays, 1973-1991 / Luigi Ghirri ; translated by Ben Bazalgette and Marguerite Shore ; edited by Michael Mack and Izabella Scott.
Also titled Luigi Ghirri : the complete essays, 1973-1991
Complete essays, 1973-1991
Edition First edition.
Published London : MACK, 2016
2016.
Description 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Notes Originally published in Italian as Niente di antico sotto il sole, 1977.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239)
Contents 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 fro the car window -- The sweet letters -- A light on the wall -- The shipping forecast.
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."--
Donated by Matthew Dunne;
Language note Translated from the Italian.
Subjects Ghirri, Luigi, -- 1943-1992
Photography, Artistic
Photographic criticism
Added Names Bazalgette, Ben translator.
Shore, Marguerite translator.
Mack, Michael, 1967- editor.
Scott, Izabella editor.
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