Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften - Luigi Ghirri And The Photography Of Place Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943 1992) was one of the most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth century. This volume the first scholarly book - length publication on Ghirri to appear in English introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and positions Ghirri as a key voice within global artistic debates. It breaks new ground by approaching Ghirri's uvre from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives in order to take account of the breadth of his interests the variety of his projects and the far - reaching impact of his work as a practitioner writer theorist and curator both in the field of photography and beyond. Drawing on different approaches from disciplines including art history theory of photography literary and cultural studies architecture cartography and place and landscape studies the essays in the volume show how Ghirri redefined contemporary photography and helped shape the spatial or landscape turn in Italy and further afield.
Title: Luigi Ghirri And The Photography Of Place Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Brand: Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Barcode: 9783034322263
Pages: 364 Pages, 8 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 3/31/2017
Series: Italian Modernities
(Editor: Gordon, Robert S.C.)
Category: Geography