GUIDI, Guido - Lunario, 1978-1999

Background information

"Photo book ['Lunario'] sets out the impossibility of classifying Guido GUIDI as a 'genre' photographer... gives the measure of the cultural horizon GUIDI commands and has the force of a lectio magistralis.” (© Il Foglio)
"A project composed across several decades, Guido GUIDI's photo book 'Lunario, 1978-1999' takes the name of a traditional farmer’s almanac to bring together several strands of work all relating to the moon. Distortion, experimentation and illusion inform Guido GUIDI’s earlier work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, further developed by the introduction of a fish-eye lens. The moon’s physical form echoes throughout the works: in a woman’s face, or a child’s playing ball caught between light and shadow. Guido GUIDI’s barren, lunar landscapes give way in the 1980s to color photographs, all of which culminate in the dramatic partial solar-eclipse of August 11, 1999.

Content

Throughout 'Lunario', Guido GUIDI comes back to the moon as a source of stylistic and thematic inspiration: a symbol of melancholy and madness, changeability and a constant reminder of the transience of everyday life." (publisher's note, © Mack Books, 2020)

Italian description

"Foto libro ['Lunario'] sancisce l'impossibilità di classificare Guido GUIDI come un fotogrago 'di genere'... dà la misura dell'orizzonte culturale di cui è capace Guidi e ha la forza di una lectio magistralis."

About Italian photographer Guido GUIDI (b. 1941)

Photo books by Guido GUIDI