{"product_id":"album-1969-82-signed-plate-edition-imperfect","title":"Album, 1969-82 (signed plate edition) imperfect","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMack 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardback, 1st edition, 160p\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImperfect - see below\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile organising his archive, Guido Guidi rediscovered negatives and prints from a prolifically productive period at the beginning of his career. These photographs, made with black-and-white film and small-format cameras, captured his day-to-day life in the 1970s – his family and friends, his colleagues at the University of Architecture in Venice – but also more fragmented and even abstract scenes: objects in disarming isolation, shadows, symbols, and deserted streets. High contrast and disorienting framing made many of these images as graphic as they were documentary. Some were marked with the remnants of captions, half-smudged notes, and other signs of their lives within previous sequences and contexts. Taking up a title he had used for a number of projects at that time, including a never-realised publication with Luigi Ghirri’s Punto e Virgola, Guidi constructed a new ‘album’: a fresh engagement with historic work, drawing on the anarchic energy and interests of his youth and the shrewd, sensitive instincts of an expert editor. The resulting book brings together the everyday with the bizarre, the recognisable with the ambiguous, in a bracingly contemporary new work from a modern master.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlbum, 1969–82\u003c\/em\u003e is the second of three complementary volumes engaging with Guidi’s black-and-white work from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s, offering luminous insight into the development of his practice and an expanded exploration of photography between art and functionality, realism and surrealism, truth and fabrication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimited edition of 1000 copies with a signed plate (see image)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisplay copy with a small dent to the bottom edge of the cover, inside fine and otherwise new.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Guidi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303208001909,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/4583\/2067\/files\/Screenshot2026-01-30at13.38.48.png?v=1769780343","url":"https:\/\/photobookstore.co.uk\/products\/album-1969-82-signed-plate-edition-imperfect","provider":"Photobookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}