Oliver Brett
Subscribe to Oliver Brett's posts
Conference update: ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape. Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy. University of Leicester, Stamford Court, 19-21 September 2014.
The conference is fast approaching! Well done to Marina and Jacopo and all others at the University of Leicester who have worked so hard to bring it all together, as well as to those who will be contributing to the programme by delivering papers. More information is now available on our webpage regarding the conference, including the abstracts […]
Lettera a Guido Guidi, Mohammadreza Mirzaei
(© Images courtesy of Mohammadreza Mirzaei, from the series ‘Fictitious Entries’, 2013-14 ) Una Lettera a Guido Guidi Mohammadreza Mirzaei Caro Guido, Spero che tu stia bene. È passato più di un anno dall’ultima volta che ci siamo incontrati. Mi ricordo bene, fu il giorno dopo la nostra conversazione all’Accademia di belle arti di Ravenna, […]
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 […]
Harry Callahan Exhibition at Tate Modern
(Image: Harry Callahan, Detroit, 1951, printed 1979-1989, © Estate of Harry Callahan; courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery New York, published by Time Out) If you are visiting London before 31 May 2014, I would urge you to go and see an exhibition of Harry Callahan’s photography at Tate Modern (if […]
Interdisciplinary Italy
Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2015: art, music, text. This international network spans the US, UK and Italy. As it nears the end of the first phase, funded by the AHRC, we are planning a second phase, which, if successful, we hope will run until about 2018. The project takes two complementary directions. The first, its […]
‘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 […]
About Me – Oliver Brett
Oliver Brett – I am project assistant for ‘Viewing and writing landscape: Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature’. I completed my undergraduate studies in French and Italian at the University of Leicester from where I have just been awarded a PhD for my thesis on ‘The lieu factice: Performance, Identity and Place in […]
Recent Comments