Off the Shelf: Luigi Ghirri’s It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It… via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/off-the-shelf-luigi-ghirris-its-beautiful-here-isnt-it One of our favorite photo books from the past few years is Aperture’s “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…” It was the first American publication of the work of Luigi Ghirri, who at the time was little known in the U.S.,…
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…
From The Year in Pictures: Luigi Ghirri: Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 and died in 1992, at the age of 49. During his short life he revolutionized Italian, if not European photography, but for a number of reasons he is barely known in the States. However, all this should change now that Aperture have…
