Luigi Ghirri Quotes
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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.
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The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
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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.
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Any photographed human being is always a photograph.
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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.
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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.
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