num_pages: 104
description: In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Kodachrome has long been out of print and on the 20th anniversary of Ghirris death MACK is proud to publish the second edition.Ghirri fights to maintain our ability to see. His works are powerful devices for the re-education of the gaze. They alter the perception we have of the world without proposing a single path to follow rather they provide us with the tools we need to find the one were looking for. Francesco ZanotPart amateur photo-album Ghirri presents his surroundings in tightly cropped images making photographs of photographs and recording the Italian landscape through its adverts postcards potted plants walls windows and people. His work is deadpan reflecting a dry wit and is a continuous engagement with the subject of reality and of landscape as a snapshot of our interaction with the world.This new edition of Kodachrome is published as a facsimile of the original adopting the original design text layout and image sequence but using new image files scanned from Ghirris original negatives to take advantage of modern technology and printing methods. A small booklet is included with an essay by Francesco Zanot which offers a contemporary perspective on the historical impact of Kodachrome alongside French and German translations of the original texts from the book (which were published in English and Italian).The daily encounter with reality the fictions the surrogates the ambiguous poetic or alienating aspects all seem to preclude any way out of the labyrinth the walls of which are ever more illusory to the point at which we might merge with them 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 GhirriBorn in Scandiano in 1942 Luigi Ghirri spent his working life in the Emilia Romagna region where he produced one of the most open and layered bodies of work in the history of photography. He was published and exhibited extensively both in Italy and internationally and was at the height of his career at the time of his death in 1992.Photography critic and curator Francesco Zanot has been working with some of the most renowned European and international photographers including Alec Soth and Olivo Barbieri for over 10 years. He has participated in multiple conferences and seminars on photography in different institutions such as Columbia University in New York and the American Academy in Rome. He is associate editor of Fantom photographic quarterly magazine based in Milan and New York.16 page booklet with a new essay by Francesco Zanot in Italian English French and German; and translations of the original texts in French and German
language: English
title: Kodachrome
publisher: MACK