Publisher/Mack

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"Colazione sull'Erba" is a collection of works by Italian photographer Luigi Ghiri. Since the 1970s, Ghiri has been known for his unique perspective on the artificiality and poetry hidden in familiar landscapes and everyday life, earning him acclaim as a pioneer of conceptual landscape photography in European photography. His work, which questions the act of seeing itself through postcards, signs, architecture, and suburban landscapes, is both poetic and critical. This book is a re-edited version of a series originally published by MACK in 2019, based on a series he photographed in the early 1970s. The title evokes Édouard Manet's famous painting, "The Luncheon on the Grass." Ghiri's photographs capture the everyday yet somehow empty and ambiguous spaces of the lawns and hedges, abandoned chairs, and garden objects on the outskirts of Modena. These landscapes, where nature and man-made, reality and fiction intertwine, are filled with humor, nostalgia, and a quiet gaze on the increasingly urbanized Italian society. This work, which exudes a particularly poetic charm among Ghirri's early works, is an essential book for understanding his worldview.