Luigi Ghirri Born : January 5, 1943 Died : 1992 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Luigi Ghirri The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light. Luigi Ghirri obvious-things simple art The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images. Luigi Ghirri communication photography reading Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation. Luigi Ghirri photography journey adventure The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. Luigi Ghirri gestures artistic photograph The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things and life. Luigi Ghirri desire trying men Any photographed human being is always a photograph. Luigi Ghirri human-beings photograph humans
