Aperture vs SAM BIRD — Comparación de Perfiles de Instagram

The Italian photographer Guido Guidi channels his training as an architect, painter, and draughtsman into quiet studies of European towns and landscapes. Since the 1960s, Guidi has recorded quiet scenes in the Italian countryside and other parts of Europe, rendering rural towns, marginal landscapes, and lone figures in his signature soft palette. His influences range from Renaissance painting to the American photographers Walker Evans, Stephen Shore, and Robert Adams, whose work investigates place and vernacular architecture with cool detachment. Guidi, too, shares their interest in the “social landscape,” and throughout the 1980s and ’90s, he used a large-format camera to look at changes afoot in Italy as a result of industrialization or migration. An exhibition of Guidi’s work opened last month at @le_bal and in Paris. Here, we look back at Aperture’s “The Interview Issue” from 2015 featuring a conversation between the photographer and Antonello Frongia. “The further away one moves from the center, the less power one senses,” says Guidi. “I seemed to have more freedom working at the margins.” Read the full interview through our link in bio. All photographs by Guido Guidi © and courtesy the artist