Signed, Guido Guidi - Varianti - 1995

Rare signed copy on the title page by Guido Guidi (born in 1940). This Guido Guidi book is referenced in Photobook by Parr & Badger, volume II, page 80. 126 pages including a two-page fold-out and 98 full-page reproductions of photographs (47 in color, 45 in black and white, and 6 in sepia tone), with texts in English and Italian. Softcover with a dust jacket featuring flaps.

To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, then you can return to the standard display at any time.

Guidi works, like many others, on a general theme indicating a lack of place… His photographs depict an Italy unknown to tourists and that most Italians would prefer not to know—industrial deserts in certain regions of northern Italy.

Varianti is a book-project entirely conceived by the author, both in the choice of images and text. Guido Guidi, one of the most refined and elegant contemporary Italian photographers, envisioned this work as a sequence of images unfolding at the natural rhythm of a pure and intimate narration, akin to the simple story of a photography album. All images, dated from 1969 to 1994, are reproduced in full size, reflecting the marks left by handling and the passage of time. Guidi's universe is imbued with a certain melancholy and uncertainty about the future. It is populated with everyday landscapes, silhouettes, faces of adults and children, trees, skies, streets, houses, factories, as well as small ironies, imaginings, and reminiscences. Varianti is a refined intellectual and poetic project that subtly critiques and questions. Perhaps Varianti is an anti-book, suggesting that the most authentic story is the one that most closely resembles what we truly say in our daily lives, or... the things we do not say.

Born in 1941, Guido Guidi began photographing in the late 1960s with pseudo-documentary images that questioned the objectivity of photography. Influenced by neorealist cinema and conceptual art, he started in the 1970s to study the degradation of the Italian landscape caused by human activities. Working in marginal and dilapidated spaces with an 8×10 large-format camera, he creates sequences conceived as meditations on the meaning of landscape, photography, and vision. Later, he explored the life and death of modernist architecture, with projects on Carlo Scarpa, and Le Corbusier in particular.

Exemplary in excellent condition, almost like new. A book from my personal collection kept with the utmost care. Protected shipping with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international tracked postal service. In case of multiple purchases, combined shipping is possible with reimbursement of any excess postal fees paid via Paypal.

1.1 kg. excluding packaging