Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles – The New York Times

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Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles

With his serene pictorial compositions, the Italian photographer reveals the world itself to be a photomontage.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/luigi-ghirris-brilliant-photographic-puzzles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Luigi Ghirri was one of the outstanding photographers of his generation. His work was largely made in Europe, and most of it focused on a small area of northern Italy, the region of Emilia-Romagna, where he was born and where he died, in 1992, of a heart attack at the too-young age of 49