009. Architecture read — The Montana Lab

Few photographers have written about seeing with the same clarity and generosity as Luigi Ghirri. Throughout these essays, photography becomes less a means of documenting the world than a way of paying closer attention to it. His reflections on landscape, architecture, memory, and everyday life continue to shape how we understand the medium today.

Perhaps it's in this very space, one of total fiction, that truth is concealed; it's here and only here that on seeing St. Peter's dome, we do not refer back to the stylised images we have of it, but recognise the sham, and return to a perception of our own, seen in reality.

Luigi Ghirri, In Scale 1977-1978, The Complete Essays