Viaggio in Italia

Beschrijving

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its first edition, Quodlibet republishes Viaggio in Italia. Conceived by Luigi Ghirri and first and only published in 1984, it is a cornerstone in the history of contemporary photography. The ideas that guided it are the manifesto of the Italian Landscape School.

In the early 1980s Luigi Ghirri gathered around him a group of twenty photographers who had already been experimenting with unconventional ways of representing reality and the social changes taking place almost everywhere in the country since the end of the previous decade. The confrontation would give rise to the group exhibition Viaggio in Italia, which opened on Jan. 15, 1984, at the Pinacoteca Provinciale in Bari and was repeated in Genoa, Ancona, Rome, Naples and Reggio Emilia.

The exhibition was accompanied by a volume of the same name, designed by Ghirri and Paola Borgonzoni, with an essay by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and an essay by Gianni Celati.

Twenty photographers participated in the Journey: Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Gianantonio Battistella, Vincenzo Castella, Andrea Cavazzuti, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Vittore Fossati, Carlo Garzia, Luigi Ghirri, Guido Guidi, Shelley Hill, Mimmo Jodice, Gianni Leone, Claude Nori, Umberto Sartorello, Mario Tinelli, Ernesto Tuliozi, Fulvio Ventura, Cuchi White.