fb pixcode

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 111 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 90   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781633451025 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CDN $63.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
NA ONLY

THE SPRING 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our Spring 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone)

Introduction by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone)

A handsome facsimile of conceptualist Luigi Ghirri’s poetic narrative of 1970s pop culture

Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–92) made Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone) during his travels around Europe, coining the term “sentimental geography” to describe his unique artistic approach of examining the ordinary to prove it remarkable. The original handmade album features over 100 chromogenic color prints pasted onto the pages of a blank book, and was gifted by Ghirri to John Szarkowski, then the Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, in the 1970s.

A singular work of art, Cardboard Landscapes is now being published for the first time. The collection is an anomaly within Ghirri’s overall oeuvre, as it prioritizes complex composition rather than the sweeping tableaux for which he is best known. In this series of works, he regards the printed image as the subject, framing a kaleidoscope of photographs and advertisements to tell a poetic visual narrative that reflects at once regional, personal and popular culture, revealing a fascinating impulse to investigate his role within his own medium.

Luigi Ghirri (1943–92) was a celebrated Italian artist and photographer known for his color photographs of landscape and architecture. He published his first photography book, Kodachrome, in 1978, and continued to utilize a conceptual framework to interrogate the line between fiction and reality.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone).'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Bookforum

Bookforum Editors

The witty antics of the Italian photographer and master of this metamove are on display.

Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone)

in stock  $45.00


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/17/2020

MoMA Design Store presents Sara Cwynar, Stephen Shore and Sarah Meister on Luigi Ghirri’s 'Cardboard Landscapes'

MoMA Design Store presents Sara Cwynar, Stephen Shore and Sarah Meister on Luigi Ghirri’s 'Cardboard Landscapes'

Tuesday, November 17 at 8PM EST, the MoMA Design Store presents artist Sara Cwynar and photographer and Director of the Bard College Photography Program Stephen Shore in conversation with MoMA curator Sarah Meister, for the online launch of Cardboard Landscapes, MoMA's new facsimile of Ghirri’s poetic narrative of 1970s pop culture. Tune in here!
continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/22/2020

MoMA releases gorgeous new facsimile of 'Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone)'

MoMA releases gorgeous new facsimile of 'Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone)'

Featured spread is from Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone), MoMA's new facsimile of conceptual photographer Luigi Ghirri's singular hand-pasted album of chromogenic color prints, which he gifted to John Szarkowski—then the head of the Museum's Photography Department—in the 1970s. "In all essential details, the original album and this facsimile edition are identical," Sarah Hermanson Meister writes in her endnote (the only change to the original): "both are bound between Florentine-paper covers laced with bronze metallic skeins and set against rough oatmeal linen spines; they share the same, nearly square dimensions and present 111 prints arranged in the same sequence over the course of fifty pages. In the facsimile as in the original, the only words that appear were inscribed by Ghirri himself, in blue ballpoint pen." continue to blog


LUIGI GHIRRI MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone)

LUIGI GHIRRI: CARDBOARD LANDSCAPES (PAESAGGI DI CARTONE)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451025
USD $45.00
| CAN $63

Pub Date: 9/29/2020
Active | In stock