Images courtesy of Sisto Giriodi These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014, entitled: ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape, Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy.
Images courtesy of Luca Nostri These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014, entitled: ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape, Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
©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 […]
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