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Guido Guidi’s new book, *In Veneto 1984–89*, opens with a large, blind-framed view of a shop window in Mestre—an eye that, opening like a kind of warning, reveals the origin of the photograph itself. This book contains a selection of previously unpublished photographs that Guidi took between 1984 and 1989 using an 8x10 Deardorff camera. It was the first time he had used a large-format camera for an entire project, which focused on an area of central Veneto—an area known for having rapidly transformed into a highly uncertain and marginal landscape, one that is intimately devoid of hierarchy. The places he visited, in the provinces of Treviso, Vicenza, Padua, and Venice, seem almost to be part of the same drawing, the same place, bearing striking witness to the process of change that led to the transformation of a vast rural area, dragging it into a form of fragmentation known as urban sprawl. The photographs of these cherished places seem to echo the three truths described by Robert Adams in “Beauty in Photography”—geography, biography, and metaphor; color photographs.
MACK Books, 2019
12 × 9 inches
EAN 9781912339624
Guido Guidi’s new book, *In Veneto 1984–89*, opens with a large, blind-framed view of a shop window in Mestre—an eye that, opening like a kind of warning, reveals the origin of the photograph itself. This book contains a selection of previously unpublished photographs that Guidi took between 1984 and 1989 using an 8x10 Deardorff camera. It was the first time he had used a large-format camera for an entire project, which focused on an area of central Veneto—an area known for having rapidly transformed into a highly uncertain and marginal landscape, one that is intimately devoid of hierarchy. The places he visited, in the provinces of Treviso, Vicenza, Padua, and Venice, seem almost to be part of the same drawing, the same place, bearing striking witness to the process of change that led to the transformation of a vast rural area, dragging it into a form of fragmentation known as urban sprawl. The photographs of these cherished places seem to echo the three truths described by Robert Adams in “Beauty in Photography”—geography, biography, and metaphor; color photographs.
MACK Books, 2019
12 × 9 inches
EAN 9781912339624
