Album, 1969–82 - Guido Guidi

While organising his archive, Guido Guidi rediscovered negatives and prints from a prolifically productive period at the beginning of his career. These photographs, made with black-and-white film and small-format cameras, captured his day-to-day life in the 1970s – his family and friends, his colleagues at the University of Architecture in Venice – but also more fragmented and even abstract scenes: objects in disarming isolation, shadows, symbols, and deserted streets. Album, 1969–82 is the second of three complementary volumes engaging with Guidi’s black-and-white work from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s, offering luminous insight into the development of his practice and an expanded exploration of photography between art and functionality, realism and surrealism, truth and fabrication.