Luigi Ghirri worked primarily with the landscape and architecture of his native Italy. His fresh color observations of Italy's contemporary culture are witty, poetic and often surreal, as in Ruvo di Puglia, as Eggleston notes in the preface to It's beautiful Here, Isn't It... (Aperture 2008) "He teases the viewer about what is real and what is not." Ghirri's images are visually profound and are about the nature of representation and seeing. Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 and died at the age of 49 in 1992. During his relatively short life, he revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970s and is considered a pioneer and master of contemporary color photography. Ghirri worked primarily with the landscape and architecture of his Italian homeland. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became know in the United States as the New Color and the New Topographics movements before they had even been named. Ghirri influenced a generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri, Martin Parr and William Eggleston. Aperture is very pleased to offer Ghirri's Ruvo di Puglia as a limited edition archival pigment in print in collaboration with Paola Ghirri, the artist's wife, further exposing this great artist to the Aperture collecting audience.