"In general, I like Ghirri's use of color and the fact that the works feels empathetic. There is also a sense of place in his photographs, yet they are not a bit regionalistic. Sometimes his work is extremely painterly —the landscape Modena (1973) is quite beautiful. The shades of green, from that austere wedge to the fuzzier, yellow-tinted grass and shrubs, and then that circular chunk of yellow. Beautiful. I like everything about it: I like the play among reality and mystery, the constructed. Everybody thinks this is new, but Ghirri was doing it more than thirty years ago." —William Eggleston Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 and died in 1992 at the age of 49. During his relatively short life, he revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970's and is widely considered a pioneer and master of contemporary color photography. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known in the United States as the New Color and the New Topographics movements before they had even been named. His work has influenced a generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri, Martin Parr, and William Eggleston. Aperture is pleased to offer this very special limited-edition photograph Modena, 1973, in collaboration with Paola Ghirri, the artist's wife, further exposing the work of this talented photographer to our collecting audience.