I’m intrigued by this work by Luigi Ghirri. It is part of a series called ‘Kodachrome’ that was published as an artist’s book in 1978. Ghirri was a photographer who relished the everyday, the ordinary and mundane and often looked for humour in the juxtaposition of images, often combining billboard posters or postcards with people in his images.

What I can’t work out, is what is the line that divides this image? It looks like something introduced into the picture, in the way I have introduced my white line into the landscape, but I can’t find any works by Ghirri where he has done this. He always works from what he can see before him. So,my assumption is that it must be a pillar or post, along the lines of the street lamp posts used by Peter Downsborough in some of his photographic works.

Either way, it’s an interesting composition, creating a sense of unease or mystery that the landscape scene itself would simply lack.