Luigi Ghirri Quotes

• 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.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Art, Simple, Obvious Things

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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.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Communication, Reading

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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.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Adventure, Journey

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• The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Gestures, Artistic, Photograph

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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.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Men, Desire, Trying

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• Any photographed human being is always a photograph.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photograph, Humans, Human Beings

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