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Di sguincio, 1969-81 (Hardcover)
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Di sguincio, 1969-81 (Hardcover)
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Di sguincio - meaning aslant, asquint, or seen from the corner of
an eye - brings together more than a hundred black-and-white
photo-graphs made by Guido Guidi with small-format cameras between
1969 and 1981. These images record experimental early dialogues
between Guidi and his camera: made without looking through the
viewfinder and lit with a bright flash, they capture people,
bodies, gestures, minor events, and fragments of space in moments
of sudden and even abrasive encounter. While formally stark and
even verging on the abstract, they document people and places close
at hand - his family home in Cesena; friends with whom he shared an
apartment in Treviso; colleagues at the Institute of Architecture
at the University of Venice - forming affectionate personal works
which explore the performative tension at the heart of images. This
book reproduces Guidi's own prints from the period, with their high
contrast, unusual blurring and definition, and oblique,
occasionally indiscernible handwritten annotations. Evoking the
joys of invention and collaboration early in an artistic career,
these fragments equally reflect the psychological, social, and
political turmoil of Italy in an era of crisis and contestation of
social values, metabolising the influences of neorealism and
postmodernism in the search for new forms. The fundamental
photographic theme of time - as it is recorded, experienced, and
manipulated - is their elusive constant. With Di sguincio, we
discover a set of anti-documents or anachronistic records -
stamped, annotated, and sometimes artificially aged - which comment
wryly on photography's claims to truth and reveal the foundations
of a lifelong engagement with the possibilities of the medium.
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