LUIGI GHIRRI The Map and The Territory

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LUIGI GHIRRI The Map and The Territory

LUIGI GHIRRI The Map and The Territory is an extensive book compiled by renowned British curator James Lingwood. Its focus is on Ghirri’s quietly compelling project to create a new kind of geography, located in his fascination with representations of the world in the form of reproductions, pictures, posters, models and maps.

The mediation of experience through images in an Italy poised between the old and the new was, for Ghirri, an inexhaustible terrain to survey.  “a great adventure into the world of thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness and the fairy tale world of children…a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine specular place of multitudes and simulation.”

Through the 1970s and 1980s, Luigi Ghirri pursued his extraordinary project, marked by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. Over the course of his short career, he produced a vast body of photographs. Plus his numerous writings which have had an indelible impact on the history of photography.

The book accompanies a touring exhibition to three major museum venues across Europe and focuses on the first decade of Ghirri’s work. Vera Fotografia was grouped into fourteen different narrative sequences, each of which is represented in this volume: Fotografie del periodo iniziale (1970), Kodachrome (1970-78), Colazione sull’erba (1972-74), Catalogo(1970-79), Km 0.250 (1973), Diaframma 11, 1/125, luce naturale(1970-79), Atlante, (1973), Italia Ailati (1971-79), Il paese del balocchi(1972-79), Vedute (1970-79), Infinito (1974), In Scala (1976-79), Still Life (1975-79).

Published in collaboration with Jeu de Paume, Museum Folkwang and Museo Reina Sofia.

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