Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, 5 January 1943 – Roncocesi, 14 February 1992) was an Italian artist and photographer who gained a far-reaching reputation as a pioneer and master of contemporary photography, with particular reference to its relationship between fiction and reality.

Ghirri started his career in the 1970s. Influenced by conceptual art, he created his first two series, Atlante (1973) and Kodachrome (1978), where his cropped images of the landscape were presented with a deadpan, often ironic wit and a continuous anthropological engagement with his surroundings. The compositions and hues of his photographs suggested subtle emotional tones and a meticulously rich way of viewing the world, as well as the role of images within it.

Ghirri’s work quickly attracted international attention. In 1975 Time-Life included the artist in its list of the "Discoveries" of its annual Photography Year publication, and he showed at the “Photography as Art, Art as Photography” exhibition in Kassel. In 1982 he was invited to the photokina in Cologne, where he was acclaimed one of the twenty most significant photographers of the 20th century for his series Topographie-Iconographie. In 1989 he made a series shot in the studio of painter Giorgio Morandi.

Ghirri has been the subject of numerous books and his works are held by various museums around the world, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo della Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He was featured in the 2011 Venice Biennale. MAXXI in Rome presented a major exhibition of the artist’s work in 2013.

The Estate of Luigi Ghirri is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

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