World-renowned director Luca Guadagnino and artist Alessio Bolzoni present an
artfully curated sequence of unseen and iconic photographs and texts by Luigi
Ghirri in this elegant volume. Produced on the occasion of Guadagnino and
Bolzoni’s co-curated exhibition ‘Luigi Ghirri: Felicità’, the books offers an
idiosyncratic path through Ghirri’s works, moving from wry images of discarded
magazine cuttings and details of materials to domestic spaces and images from
Ghirri’s travels around his home country and beyond, saturated in colour and
sunlight. These disparate works resonantly piece together various elements and
themes in this singular artist’s practice. Three essays by Ghirri punctuate the
book – ‘The Open Work’, ‘The Impossible Landscape’, and ‘House, Bridge, Gate’ –
opening up new vistas of photography’s infinite potential among a distinctly
personal selection of his work.
