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Kodachrome
9781907946240
New
Seconde édition, parue en 2012 chez Mack.
L'édition originale de 1978 (Contrejour en France, Punto e Virgola en Italie) figure dans Le Livre de Photographies : Une Histoire (Vol. 1, p. 231), mais cet ouvrage a été fort peu commenté à sa sortie. A posteriori, Martin Parr et Gerry Badger attribuent à Luigi Ghirri - au travers de Kodachrome - une influence sur la photographie couleur en Europe similaire à celle qu'à pu avoir William Eggleston's Guide outre-Atlantique.
Ce livre est construit autour de paires d'images (présentées en double-page) construites autour de similarités graphiques, de construction ou de cadrage, mais sans autre point commun.
Avec des images relativement simples, que l'on pourrait souvent indiquer comme "du quotidien", Ghirri utilise la photographie pour montrer des choses que peu d'objectifs avaient jusque là regardées. Il s'attache au détail d'un cadre, à une devanture de magasin, à des arbres, et perçoit des formes, des couleurs, des ensembles de lignes dont la simplicité - voire l'épure - font la beauté.
Un livre qui ouvre les yeux et nous apprend à regarder !
Dans un petit fascicule, on retrouve les essais de Luigi Ghirri et Gianni Berengo Gardin de l'édition originale, accompagnés d'un nouvel essai de Francesco Zanot.
104 pages - Couverture souple
Mack, 2012
Neuf sous blister - Aucun défaut
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Ghirri, Luigi
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