Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
I take photographs in color because the real world is in color, and because color film has been invented.
…I called on photography to suggest or point out a possible itinerary through the outside world, which seemed to me ever more blurry, indestructible and incomprehensible—a boundless kingdom of analogy and fragmentation.
Photography needs to do away with the idea of being a representation simply because it is always ‘an image’.
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.
Style is a coded reading, and I believe photography to be a codeless language, and rather than a kind of restriction, it is a broadening and expansion of communication.
