Jacopo Benci gives a talk at the Barbican exhibition – Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age
Luigi Ghirri installation images, Barbican Art Gallery, 25 Sept 2014 – 11 Jan 2015, © Chris Jackson / Getty Images On 11 December 2014, Jacopo Benci gave a gallery presentation of Ghirri’s work included in the Barbican exhibition ‘Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age’ (25 September 2014–11 January 2015): I […]
Virtual Exhibition – Cesare Ballardini – Il centro del mondo, 2008-2012
These images are part of a work called The centre of the world. They are photos taken in Boncellino, a hamlet near Bagnacavallo, in the Ravenna Province, where my uncle spent much of his adolescence. Despite being a small village, it has remained for him one of the most significant places in his life. I […]
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 […]
Cesare Ballardini, ‘Dal vero’, 2011
The photography of Cesare Ballardini stands somewhere on a line connecting the photography of Guido Guidi – who portrays anonymous places in a pared down, anti-heroic, melancholic, decentred way, using black and white alongside de-saturated colour – to that of Luigi Ghirri, which by comparison appears maximalistic: axial, symmetrical, pictorial, rich in its colour, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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