Modena, the ebook Carezze al mondo is out

Modena, the ebook Carezze al mondo is out.

It's online new Dondolo ebook "Caresses to the world", The unpublished text that Michele Smargiassi, journalist and photography scholar, dedicates to the poetic and intellectual friendship of the photographer Luigi Ghirri, whose death marks the thirtieth anniversary, with the writer Gianni Celati. The new ebook, like the others published by digital publishing house of the Municipality of Modena directed by Beppe Cottafavi, can be downloaded for free from the digital platform Mlol.

Luigi ghirri, the most important Italian photographer of our era, was born on January 5, 1943 scandiano, near Reggio Emilia and dies suddenly in his home Ronchocesi the 14 February 1992.

To confirm that photography becomes part of a new narrative of the Italian landscape together with other "writings", for the "Viaggio in Italia" exhibition the writing by Gianni Celati, one of the greatest writers of our era, "Towards the mouth. Reportage for a photographer friend“. The text of this friendship gives an account of this friendship You bragged.

Luigi ghirri he lived and worked for a long time in Modena where he knows theconceptual artist Franco Vaccari and with him he delves into some fundamental reflections on the role of photography in the field of contemporary art. In 1972 a Modena, At the hall of the Canalgrande Hotel – Sette Arti Club circle, presents his first solo exhibition entitled “Luigi Ghirri. Photographs 1970-71“, the result of a selection made together with Franco Vaccari, author of the introduction to the catalogue.

Then realize it Km 0.250, photographic reduction in 1:10 scale of the perimeter wall of the Modena racetrack covered with advertising posters. In the mid 70's she moves in with Paola Borgonzoni in an apartment in the historic center of Modena. In the dim light of the new house a new job begins, “Identikit“. By photographing his objects, records and books in his library in natural light, he creates a declaration of identity but at the same time an intimate diary of those days and that place. As soon as he leaves home and wanders around the stalls of the antiques market in Piazza Grande, he embarks on a new journey in the world of images and signs, thus conceiving the series Still life. Paintings, framed photographs, catalogues, manuscripts, old things piled up, present themselves to his gaze, transforming into "places" in which to grasp possible stratifications: even objects that seem to be entirely described by sight can be, in their representation, like blank pages of a book not yet written.

In 1978 he founded the Punto e Virgola publishing house and published his first book, "Kodachrome“. Here he also publishes the essay by Franco Vaccari "Photography and the Technological Unconscious".