Research Catalog

Title

Luigi Ghirri : Cardboard landscapes : photographs from 1971-73 / with a note on the facsimile edition by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Author

Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992,

Publication

New York : Museum of Modern Art 2020.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Meister, Sarah Hermanson,

Description

105 pages : color illustrations; 25 x 25 cm

Summary

"A handsome facsimile of conceptualist Luigi Ghirri's poetic narrative of 1970s pop culture. Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-92) made Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone) during his travels around Europe, coining the term "sentimental geography" to describe his unique artistic approach of examining the ordinary to prove it remarkable. The original handmade album features over 100 chromogenic color prints pasted onto the pages of a blank book, and was gifted by Ghirri to John Szarkowski, then the Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, in the 1970s. singular work of art, Cardboard Landscapes is now being published for the first time. The collection is an anomaly within Ghirri's overall oeuvre, as it prioritizes complex composition rather than the sweeping tableaux for which he is best known. In this series of works, he regards the printed image as the subject, framing a kaleidoscope of photographs and advertisements to tell a poetic visual narrative that reflects at once regional, personal and popular culture, revealing a fascinating impulse to investigate his role within his own medium."--Brookline Booksmith website (viewed on October 7, 2020)

Alternative Title

Cardboard landscapes

Subject

• Ghirri, Luigi, 1943-1992
• Photography, Artistic

Note

• Title from rear of publication.

Call Number

TR654

ISBN

• 9781633451025
• 163345102X

LCCN

99985947128

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries