Bilingual edition (English and Italian)
A house, a bridge, a window: the simplest words can still hold a whole geography. In this bilingual volume, Luca Guadagnino and Alessio Bolzoni shape an intimate path through Luigi Ghirri—unseen photographs beside the familiar, images and texts placed so they speak across the page. 
Made for their co-curated exhibition Luigi Ghirri, Felicità, the sequence moves by quick shifts of attention: wry glimpses of discarded magazine cuttings, close details of materials, the quiet charge of domestic rooms, and then the open air—travel across Italy and beyond, saturated with colour and sunlight. The book doesn’t resolve these distances into a tidy story; it lets them sit together, resisting the comfort of cliché, making room for what Ghirri calls a “representational void.” 
Three of Ghirri’s essays—The Open Work, The Impossible Landscape, and House, Bridge, Gate—punctuate the journey, returning again and again to the question of how we describe the world when description itself begins to slip. If the “global village” has made everything feel close, Ghirri’s pictures remind us that closeness is never simple: “I am the size of what I see.”
Three essays by Ghirri punctuate the volume—The Open Work, The Impossible Landscape, and House, Bridge, Gate—opening onto photography’s possibilities through a distinctly personal selection of his work.
