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  Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't it... (Hardback) By (photographer) Luigi Ghirri, Preface by William Eggleston, Text by Germano Celant, Notes by Paola Ghirri

  

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  • Publisher: aperture
  • Published: 02 June 2008
  • Format: Hardback 152 pages
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  • Categories: Individual Photographers | Photographic Reportage
  • ISBN 13: 9781597110587 ISBN 10: 1597110582
  • Sales rank: 96,828

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• Luigi Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer and curator whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have the international audience his work merits--perhaps because he died so young. "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..."--the first book published on Ghirri in the U.S.--will establish him as the seminal artist he was. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known in the U.S. as the New Color and the New Topographics movements before they had even been named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri believed that the local and the universal were inseparable and that life's polarities--love and hate, present and past--were equally compelling. Not surprisingly, his interests encompassed all the arts: he worked in Giorgio Morandi's studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing a generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr. This dynamic new book includes a selection of Ghirri's essays published in English for the first time, as well as a selected chronology.