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In 2019, Guido Guidi and Gerry Johansson—two of the great masters of film photography in the 20th and 21st centuries—took part in the Verso Nord photography campaign, organized as part of the P=S+N project in Castelfranco, Veneto, and the surrounding area. While Guidi focused his attention on the historic center of this small town, concentrating on the architectural fabric to capture in detail the layers of history and time, Johansson moved around the urban sprawl to explore, through photography, the cultural imagination of northeastern Italy, where architecture and nature, residential buildings and open space become unique witnesses to a relaxed landscape with uncertain and mysterious characteristics. Guido Guidi, by shifting his perspective—achieved using a large-format camera (8×10 in.)—identifies a tool for verifying reality, raising new questions about photography and its inherent codes. Gerry Johansson explores the essence of the places he encounters through traditional black-and-white photography. He aims to reassemble the fragments of a public imagination composed of micro-landscapes, ambiguously poised between detachment and objectivity.
In terms of editing, design, color separation, choice of materials, printing, and binding, this book is a graphic Gesamtkunstwerk produced in Veneto, Italy.
It was created in close collaboration with the photographers, the designer, the publishers, and one of the many remarkable local graphic design firms near Castelfranco (Grafiche Antiga); texts by Stefania Rössl in conversation with Guido Guidi and Gerry Johansson.
Hartmann Books, 2021
96 pages
30 × 32 cm
ISBN 9783960700807
In 2019, Guido Guidi and Gerry Johansson—two of the great masters of film photography in the 20th and 21st centuries—took part in the Verso Nord photography campaign, organized as part of the P=S+N project in Castelfranco, Veneto, and the surrounding area. While Guidi focused his attention on the historic center of this small town, concentrating on the architectural fabric to capture in detail the layers of history and time, Johansson moved around the urban sprawl to explore, through photography, the cultural imagination of northeastern Italy, where architecture and nature, residential buildings and open space become unique witnesses to a relaxed landscape with uncertain and mysterious characteristics. Guido Guidi, by shifting his perspective—achieved using a large-format camera (8×10 in.)—identifies a tool for verifying reality, raising new questions about photography and its inherent codes. Gerry Johansson explores the essence of the places he encounters through traditional black-and-white photography. He aims to reassemble the fragments of a public imagination composed of micro-landscapes, ambiguously poised between detachment and objectivity.
In terms of editing, design, color separation, choice of materials, printing, and binding, this book is a graphic Gesamtkunstwerk produced in Veneto, Italy.
It was created in close collaboration with the photographers, the designer, the publishers, and one of the many remarkable local graphic design firms near Castelfranco (Grafiche Antiga); texts by Stefania Rössl in conversation with Guido Guidi and Gerry Johansson.
Hartmann Books, 2021
96 pages
30 × 32 cm
ISBN 9783960700807
