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Ghirri was,

essentially, a curious

bring any real success or economic stability lover of poetry, lieve that any adjective is precise or that any

in his lifetime. In 1992, he was struck by a philosophy and music is imprecise. But perhaps my idea of photo-
sudden illness and died unexpectedly. graphy, as the unlimited possibility of expres-

sion, has sought worlds and ways to repre-

Luigi ghirri’s photography has something sent them within reality. I have tried not to

different and special about it; it is captivating in its poetry and take shelter in the safe lands of repetition of myself but in diffe-

at the same time leaves us speechless in its simplicity. It feels rent techniques and gazes. Regardless of all its negative aspects,

natural to say his photographs are works of art, leaving aside for I think photography is an extraordinary visual language that can

a moment the rhetoric of this definition. They certainly have a increase the desire for the infinite that exists in each of us. It is

powerful and evocative language that makes it hard to remain a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic

indifferent. toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness

with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey
ghirri had another skill; one rarely found in an artist, he was able through great and small, through variations and the realm of
to reflect frankly and critically on his own work. he was able to illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of
write about his photography as if he were a critic: “I don’t be- multitudes and simulation.

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