Luigi Ghirri (5 January 1943 – 14 February 1992) was an Italian artist and photographer[1][2] whose work was about the relationship between fiction and reality.
Influenced by conceptual art, he created his first two series, Atlante (1973) and Kodachrome (1978),[3][6] where his cropped images of the landscape were presented with a deadpan, often ironic wit and a continuous anthropological engagement with his surroundings.
[citation needed] The compositions and hues of his photographs suggested subtle emotional tones and a meticulously rich way of viewing the world, as well as the role of images within it.
In 1982 he was invited to the photokina in Cologne, where he was acclaimed as one of the twenty most significant photographers of the 20th century for his series Topographie-Iconographie.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 49[7] in Roncocesi, Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy on 14 February 1992.