Luigi Ghirri The Complete Essays

this is the book i am reading because he is one of my favorite photographers and because he is writing about his proces. his style of writing is at the same time very philosophically detached and personal, honest, and sure, someone who genuinely loves and works on what he loves.

ALL QUOTES :

WHEN I TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH, I'M INEVITABLY INSIDE THE NARRATIVE, AN INDIVIDUAL INSIDE THE STORY WHICH IS A HISTORICITY I CANNOT REFUSE IN THE MOMENT I EXPERIENCE IT

MY AIM IS NOT TO OFFER TESTIMONY TO EVEYDAY BANALITIES, OR TO PICK OUT THE KITCH; RATHER, I'M DRIVEN BY DESIRE TO KNOW, TO DESIPHER, AND TO BRING TOGETHER THESE TWO CONTRASTING VIEWS IN ORDER TO DISCOVER SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR AFFINITIES AND DIFFERENCES

on stile i have never been interested in what is commonly refferd to as style style is a CODED READING, and I believe photography to be a codeless language, and rather then a kind of restriction, it is a broadening and expansion of COMMUNICATION

Photographic style is inherent in the very choice of photography as a language, and its way of seeing the world is inevitably limited by horizontal and vertical lines, i.e. what is caught in the frame. In this sense Photography always implies substraction, or a sense of something missing, something outside the frame.