New York – Luigi Ghirri: “Kodachrome” at Matthew Marks Gallery Through April 20th, 2013
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Luigi Ghirri, Bastia (1976), via Matthew Marks Gallery
In 1978, photographer Luigi Ghirri first published his manifesto on avant-garde photography, Kodachrome. Locating the image as both a problem and solution in the increasingly complex interrelations of image, identity and object created through a technologically advancing world, the book sought to use the camera as it was, a machine for generating reproductions, to, in his words “be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things, and life.” Recognizing the artist’s immense contributions to both photography and conceptual thought, Matthew Marks Gallery is currently hosting a show of 25 of Ghirri’s photographs in New York City, taken from the artist’s landmark book.
