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 […]
Viewing and writing landscape: Luigi Ghirri and his legacy blog
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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