Luigi Erba was born in Lecco in 1949, has always favored a reflection of linguistic research on photography through a contact person within, invented, far from precise topographical connotations. A lyrical conceptualism, which are detailed concepts of spacetime, the denial of photography as a single shot that captures the moment, sustained relationships planning and randomness, of conscious and unconscious. See the interframe since 1987, since 1995/96 a place on the other, as in solo exhibitions Work in Progress (San Fedele Milano1998) RIPRESEPERSONENATURACITTA '(Galleria di Palazzo Sertoli Credit Valtellina, Sondrio 2002), In paesaggio(Olim, Bergamo2002), Dialettica dei luoghi (Cons Arc, Chiasso, 2004). He interpreted the work of several artists, including Luigi Bartolini, works on the territory of Lombardy foothills and local reassembling linguistically images of memory, a dream always linguistic value, such Frasnida (Morterone 1988), Lecco: Archaeology of a landscape (API and Melesi Gallery, Lecco 2007), compared with the theoretical clear image digital camera, camera obscura (Italian Photography Art Contemporary, Milan, 2008). Journalist and art critic has often dealt with the history of painting and photography, especially the fifties and sixties through collaborations, exhibitions, essays, books and published a book on thinking and reading camera (In the storeroom of the Imaginary, 1992), the tenth book Flashback to "My Pictures Pictures Practice", with Roberto Mutti volumes Mario Cresci (unexpected changes) and Gallery "The Diaphragm" in Milan (The eye of Columbus).