In the first part of an extended discussion, Guido Guidi sits down with Roberta Valtorta, critic and photo-historian, to discuss Guidi's new book 'Cinque viaggi (1990-98)', which brings together his images of Milan and its peripheries, proposing a entirely new vision of the famous city and a transformative way of seeing the world.
Run time approx 30 mins. Shown in Italian with English subtitles.
Thursday 11 November
18:00 GMT, London
19:00 CET, Rome
13:00 EST, New York
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About Cinque viaggi (1990-98)
Between 1990 and 1998, Guido Guidi made five separate trips to Milan and its surrounding areas. Cinque viaggi brings together the photographs made there, forming an investigation of one city and its peripheries in the throes of economic and social transformation. As Guidi follows the canal from out in the suburbs toward the city centre, his attention and visual language move from the vernacular to the metropolitan, from wider horizontal views to vertical ‘cuts’ in the urban fabric, from entire buildings and scenes to glimpsed façades and doorways. Along the way, we also encounter inhabitants: a group of young men gathered in a Pasolini-like scene on a bridge in the city’s outskirts; occasional passers-by working, shopping, or stopping to smoke on the city streets; disconnected couples and disparate individuals whose loose citizenship coheres the urban sprawl.
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