Claude Nori's Book Reveals Intimate Portrait of Luigi Ghirri

Claude Nori's book "Luigi Ghirri. L'amico infinito" (Postcart, Rome 2019) offers a new perspective on the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri, focusing on their friendship, shared passion for photography, and collaborative projects. The volume includes private photographs of Ghirri with his daughters Ilaria and Adele, his partner Paola, and his first wife Anna, as well as images from his youth. Nori recounts their travels accompanied by Bob Dylan's music, Ghirri's lectures at the Sorbonne, and his work in Versailles and the United States. The book also covers the founding of the cooperative publishing house Punto e Virgola in 1977, which later merged into Jaka Book through Giovanni Chiaramonte, paralleling Nori's French editions Contrejour and the magazine Caméra International. A significant section explores Ghirri's elective affinity with Giorgio Morandi, despite never meeting. The volume concludes with photographs of Ghirri's funeral on February 14, 1992, evoking Courbet's "A Burial at Ornans" and bridging Italy and France.