May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GHIRRI, LUIGI.
Kodachrome.
Text by Ghirri and Piero Berengo Gardin. Illustrated with reproductions of Ghirri's compelling 1970s color photographs taken in various European cities. 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers, lightly soiled and edges lightly age-darkened; internally clean, but with expected faint discoloration to edges of pages. Parr/Badger I 231; Auer 613. first edition.
(Modena, Italy): (Edizioni punto e virgola/Biblioteca di Fotografia), (1978)

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Ghirri was as integral to the development of color photography in Europe as Eggleston was in America. His photographs are charming and complex.