The interest in taking interdisciplinary and interartistic approaches to Italian cultural figures continues, as a new project is announced on Luigi Ghirri: “Viewing and writing Italian Landscape: Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature”, funded by Leverhulme and the British Academy. Marina Spunta (University of Leicester) and Jacopo Benci (The British School at Rome) are the principal and co-investigators. The project runs from now until August 2015 and its inaugural event is a conference at the British School in Rome, on Wednesday 9th October 2013. Marina has joined our own Advisory Board. Its objectives are to widen the study of the works of the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992), and to explore his legacy in photography, literature and other disciplines (such as geography and aesthetics) and contemporary practices (such as art, the moving image, architecture) and to examine the intersections between photography, narrative writing on space/place and landscape.
The first event is next week: Come pensare per immagini? Luigi Ghirri e la fotografia / How to think in images? Luigi Ghirri and photography, at The British School at Rome, mercoledì 9 ottobre 2013, dalle 9.30 alle 19.30. The event is free and open to all. See here for details.
