Sara Bonfili – ‘Viaggi lenti e sghembi’ fra Marche e Abruzzo di Paolo Merlini e Maurizio Silvestri
Testo di Sara Bonfili Riguardo il sodalizio che può instaurarsi tra fotografi e scrittori, i marchigiani Paolo Merlini e Maurizio Silvestri possono essere citati come esempi di viaggiatori-osservatori che fanno del reportage giornalistico una buona scusa per far letteratura, e del viaggio lento un modo per scoprire paradisi italiani dimenticati o sottovalutati. Perché tra i […]
Sara Bonfili – Scrittori marchigiani e sguardo fotografico/1. Intervista ad Angelo Ferracuti
Testo di Sara Bonfili Vi sono nelle Marche narratori che sembrano aver assunto l’insegnamento ghirriano del ‘pensare per immagini’, e che lavorano con fotografi di riferimento: uno fra questi è Angelo Ferracuti, che lavora con Mario Dondero dai tempi del settimanale de La Stampa, Diario, di Enrico Deaglio. L’accoppiata scrittore-fotografo, va detto, non è […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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