Tag: Luigi Ghirri

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., and highlights the photographer’s preoccupation with spatial relationships and color photography, and his engagement with concepts that would come to define the New Color and Topographic movements and influence such photo titans as William Eggleston and Martin Parr.

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