space/place/landscape studies

Jacopo Benci gives a talk at the Barbican exhibition – Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age

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

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 […]

Part II: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

Part II: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

Having detected a powerful strain of the uncanny in Ghirri’s work in Polignano, I began to ponder my own work done there. After a year and a half, I have just finished a series based on my stay there. When I showed the series to an Italian film-maker friend – he made a one word […]

Part I: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

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 […]

William Guerrieri – La fotografia dei ‘luoghi’ e gli autori degli anni Novanta

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 […]

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 […]

'Scandiano. Fiera di San Giuseppe', from Il profilo delle nuvole (1989). Copyright Eredi di Luigi Ghirri.

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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