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Accompanying a major solo exhibition at LE BAL, Paris, Col tempo, 1956?2024 provides a complete and longawaited retrospective of the career of Guido Guidi. Edited by the artist himself in his typically illuminating, associative style, the book begins with some of the earliest photographs Guidi made, aged fifteen, in the countryside around his home in Cesena in the Italian region of Romagna. The sequence that follows, covering almost seventy years, encompasses a wide range of styles and approaches and includes journeys to the USA, Russia, Turkey, and Portugal, as well as studies of the works of architects including Carlo Scarpa and Le Corbusier. Consistently, though, it returns to the modest agricultural landscapes where Guidi was born and still lives and works today, among which he has developed the revelatory visual language which has defined him as a modern master.Including many of Guidi?s most famous series alongside unseen early and new works, paintings, and writings, this book offers an unprecedented insight into the work of one of the world?s great living photographers. It is completed by illuminating critical essays by exhibition curators Simona Antonacci, Pippo Ciorra, and Antonello Frongia.Copublished with LE BAL, Paris