Luigi Ghirri

A first edition copy of Kodachrome.

• Luigi Ghirri (Italian).
• Design by Paola Borgonzoni and Luigi Ghirri.
• With an introduction by Piero Berengo Gardin and foreword by Luigi Ghirri, both in Italian and English.
• Modena: Punto e Virgola, 1978.
• 103 pages.
• Quarto.
• Includes color photographs printed in offset throughout.
• Illustrated white wrappers.

Kodachrome is a pioneering work of color photography. In the foreword, Ghirri writes, "The meaning I try to give to my work is that of the verification of how it is still possible to wish to face the way of knowledge, to make it possible at last to tell the real identity of man, of things, of life, from the image of man, of things, of life... but above all as a search for identity in a reality which is often tragically absurd in its cruel and brutalizing pretenses and surrogates, which appear in the present, but which do not forget the past... An examination of the world and its conventional representation, the limits of reality and imagination."