Ruvo di Puglia, 1983

Luigi Ghirri worked primarily with the landscape and architecture of his native Italy. His fresh color observations of Italy's contemporary culture are witty, poetic, and often surreal, as in Ruvo di Puglia, as William Eggleston notes in the preface to It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It... (Aperture 2008). "He teases the viewer about what is real and what is not." Ghirri's images are visually profound and are about the nature of representation and seeing. Ghirri influenced a generation of photographers, including Eggleston, Olivo Barbieri, and Martin Parr. Aperture is pleased to offer this limited-edition archival pigment in print in collaboration with Paola Ghirri, the artist's wife.

Archival Pigment Print
Paper Size: 9 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches
Image Size: 6 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches
Edition of 25 and 5 Artist’s Proofs
Captioned and numbered by Paola Ghirri
Embossed with the official stamp of the Estate of Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri (b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy; d. 1992, Roncocesi, Italy) revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970s during his relatively short life. He is considered a pioneer and master of contemporary color photography. Ghirri worked primarily with the landscape and architecture of his Italian homeland. He shared the sensibility of what became known in the U.S. as the New Color and New Topographics movements before they had even been named.