Guido Guidi’s Col tempo, 1956–2024 gathers nearly seven decades of photographic work into a retrospective shaped by the artist himself. Its point of departure is especially revealing: photographs made when Guidi was fifteen in the countryside around Cesena, in Romagna, where he was born and continues to live and work. From this local ground, the book extends outward through journeys in the United States, Russia, Turkey, and Portugal, while repeatedly returning to modest agricultural landscapes. The result is not a simple chronological survey, but an account of how a sustained attention to place can accommodate changing forms and methods.

Guidi’s associative sequencing brings together a wide range of styles, approaches, and subjects. Studies of architecture by Carlo Scarpa, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier sit alongside images of rural environments; established works and series appear with unseen early and recent material, as well as paintings and writings. This breadth makes the book valuable not only as an overview of Guidi’s career, but as a record of the connections he draws between photography, observation, and other visual languages.

The volume also clarifies the intellectual and pictorial currents within his practice, including the influence of Early Renaissance frescoes, minimalism, Pop art, and semiotics. Rather than isolating these references as illustrations of a thesis, the artist’s sequencing allows them to recur as active, sometimes unexpected correspondences. Critical essays complete the retrospective, offering further context for a body of work that has developed through continuity as much as change.

Published by MACK in 2025, this 436-page paperback edition is a substantial collection of Guidi’s images, writings, and paintings. For collectors, its particular significance lies in the combination of a self-directed retrospective structure, early and new material, and the persistent return to the landscapes that anchor his life and practice.