Guido Guidi - Veramente - 2014

Indeed it was published on the occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the same name, which opened at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in January 2014 and embraces the entire body of work of Italian photographer Guido Guidi, gathering extracts from his series from 1959 to today to illuminate the distinctive photographic language he forged over 40 years of career.

Guidi, a pioneer of the new Italian landscape photography, together with Luigi Ghirri, was influenced by the history of architecture, Italian neorealist cinema, and conceptual art. Using photography as a process and an experience of understanding, Guidi’s body of work frames a visual discourse centered on what it means to see or what it might mean to offer an image.

Guido Guidi was born in Cesena, Italy, in 1941. He studied in Venice at the Università IUAV (Institute of Architecture, today IUAV), where he attended courses by Bruno Zevi, Carlo Scarpa, and Mario De Luigi, and at the Higher Course of Industrial Design with Italo Zannier and Luigi Veronesi. He deserves to be fully acknowledged among the most important Italian photographers; a great friend of Luigi Ghirri, in 1984 he was indeed among the photographers of the iconic project (book + exhibition) “Viaggio in Italia” conceived by Ghirri himself; with him Mimmo Jodice, Mario Cresci, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Claude Nori, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Vittore Fossati and others. Viaggio in Italia became the “manifesto” of what, born in the early eighties, would become “The Italian School of Landscape Photography.”

A rare and unmissable volume for lovers of Guido Guidi and the “Italian School of Landscape Photography.”