Jacopo Benci

Marina Spunta

The Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri was one of the most significant visual artists of the late twentieth century. This volume introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and positions Ghirri more firmly within global artistic debates, breaking new ground by approaching Ghirri's oeuvre from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place

Simonetta Lux

Pierluigi Albertoni

Mary Angela Schroth

Tito Amodei

Mirella Bentivoglio

Antonio Capaccio

Fabrizio Crisafulli

Nicola De Risi

Marina Engel

Stefano Fontebasso De Martino

Marie Eve Gardère

Liliana Gregorin

Victor Misiano

Domenico Nardone

Francesco Pezzini

Antonella Pisilli

Lucia Ronchetti

Silvia Stucky

Emanuela Termine

Il Centro sperimentale per l'arte contemporanea Sala 1, fondato da Tito Amodei nel 1967 a Roma nel complesso architettonico della Scala Santa, ripercorre i propri quaranta anni di vita attraverso le testimonianze dei protagonisti della vita culturale dello spazio. Una storia corale, polifonica, frutto d'intrecci di singole voci, veicoli di pensieri e di esperienze individuali che incontrandosi hanno delineato traiettorie e fughe, determinando, nel loro interagire per inclusione ed esclusione, il senso del proprio operato. La diacronia serrata dei singoli eventi di tanto in tanto rallenta il proprio ritmo per accogliere approfondimenti e racconti analitici, dei veri e propri zoom narrativi, nel tentativo di fornire ulteriori chiavi di lettura e di comprensione di un operare - tanto denso, quanto effimero - quale quello che caratterizza la nostra arte contemporanea. Con una appassionata prefazione di Toni Maraini.

Cronistorie d'arte contemporanea - Sala1

Mémoires 1967 - 2007

Maria Antonella Pelizzari

Luigi Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer and curator whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have the international audience his work merits--perhaps because he died so young. "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..."--the first book published on Ghirri in the U.S.--will establish him as the seminal artist he was. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known in the U.S. as the New Color and the New Topographics movements before they had even been named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri believed that the local and the universal were inseparable and that life's polarities--love and hate, present and past--were equally compelling. Not surprisingly, his interests encompassed all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi's studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing a generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new book includes a selection of Ghirri's essays published in English for the first time, as well as a selected chronology.

The Map and the Territory

Luigi Ghirri

Jacopo Benci

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