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While sorting through his archive, Guido Guidi rediscovered negatives and prints from an intensely productive early phase. Shot on black-and-white film with small-format cameras, these photographs follow his everyday life in the 1970s—family and friends, colleagues at Venice’s University of Architecture—alongside more fragmentary, near-abstract views: solitary objects, shadows, symbols, empty streets. Their high contrast and off-kilter framing make them as graphic as they are documentary. Many still carry traces of earlier uses—faded captions, smudged notes, and the marks of past sequences.
Reviving a title he used at the time (including for an unrealised project with Luigi Ghirri’s Punto e Virgola), Guidi shaped these materials into a new “album”: a renewed conversation with his own history, guided by the restless curiosity of youth and the quiet precision of an accomplished editor. The book pairs the familiar with the strange, clarity with ambiguity, creating a work that feels strikingly contemporary.
Album, 1969–82 is the second of three companion volumes devoted to Guidi’s black-and-white photographs from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, offering a vivid view of his evolving practice and a deeper exploration of photography’s space between art and use, realism and surrealism, truth and invention.
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