Part I: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri
©Luigi Ghirri—‘Cala Paura, Polignano’ (1987) ©Nancy Goldring-Photograph, Polignano, 2012 © Nancy Goldring-Photograph, Polignano, 2012 Last year just before leaving Polignano al Mare in Puglia where I had gone to draw, I realized I hadn’t visited the one small museum in town – the Pino Pascali. Among the works in the collection I was surprised to […]
Sisto Giriodi – Con gli occhi di Ghirri. Fotografia come festa mobile
Testo di Sisto Giriodi tratto dal suo intervento al convegno ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape. Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy. Il programma proponeva molti temi, tutti belli, ne ho scelti due: la ‘lettura’ di fotografie (mie) e la ‘eredità’ del lavoro di Ghirri, ma sono temi che non […]
William Guerrieri – La fotografia dei ‘luoghi’ e gli autori degli anni Novanta
La fotografia dei ‘luoghi’ e gli autori degli anni Novanta William Guerrieri La fotografia degli anni Ottanta è stata definita giustamente, pur con le variabili individuali di ciascun autore, come la fotografia dei ‘luoghi’. Si è detto più volte del senso di appartenenza al paesaggio dei fotografi di quel decennio, che si è espresso […]
Instituto Moreira Salles – Luigi Ghirri: Pensare per immagini/Thinking images.
With a selection of Luigi Ghirri’s photographs montaged in between reflections on his work, these thoughts provide an overview of his techniques and style while at the same time drawing attention to his aim of understanding the world through a focus on the banal as opposed to the creation of a masterpiece. An excellent video from IMS! (Video published […]
‘Grande Successo’ / ‘Great Success’.
Emiliano-Romagnoli have reported on the great success of the Luigi Ghirri exhibition in Brazil (‘Luigi Ghirri. Pensar Por Imagens.’). The exhibition has now moved from the Insituto Moreira Salles in Säo Paolo to the Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro, with reports in the magazine Veja Säo Paulo and the newspaper O’Globo highlighting the […]
CFP: Call for Papers for Conference in Leicester, 19-20 September 2014
‘CALL FOR PAPERS’ IN INGLESE E DI SEGUITO IN ITALIANO ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape. Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy. Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September 2014 University of Leicester Abstracts to be submitted by 31 March 2014 Organisers: Marina Spunta (University of […]
Some recent Ghirri exhibitions (2013)
In 2013 the MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo) in Rome held a major retrospective of Ghirri’s work, curated by Francesca Fabiani, Laura Gasparini and Giuliano Sergio: ‘Luigi Ghirri, ‘Pensare per immagini’’ (23 April-27 October 2013): http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/. The MAXXI Ghirri retrospective is currently being exhibited in Brazil, thanks to the Instituto […]
BSR conference 9 October 2013
Conference on Luigi Ghirri at the The British School at Rome (http://www.bsr.ac.uk/), 9 October 2013. The first event of the British Academy-funded project was a conference entitled ‘How to think in images? Luigi Ghirri and photography’ / ‘Come pensare per immagini? Luigi Ghirri e la fotografia’, which was held at The British School at […]
Why this project? / Perché questo progetto?
This project stems from my interest in contemporary Italian literature and photography, in the work of Gianni Celati, Luigi Ghirri and other writers and artists, and in space, place and landscape studies. My interest in Ghirri started to develop about ten years ago alongside my study of the literary representations of space and place in […]
Welcome to ‘Viewing and writing landscape’
Welcome to ‘Viewing and writing Italian landscape. Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature’. This blog is linked to a new interdisciplinary research network that brings together scholars, artists/photographers and writers in order to discuss Luigi Ghirri’s work and legacy, and, more broadly, the intersection among contemporary photography/visual culture, literature and the investigation […]
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