Guido Rey

Nationality

Italian

Lifetime

1860-1935

Biography

Guido Rey Italian, 1860-1935 Guido Rey began photographing mountain landscapes around 1885. Although influenced by photographers Emilio Gallo, Vittorio Besso, and his cousin, Vittorio Sella, Rey turned to the classical world for inspiration around 1893, studying antique architecture, furniture, and costumes to give his work an authenticity and spirit that would impress photographers Wilhelm von Gloeden and Baron von Pluschkow. Rey exhibited his classically inspired work in 1898, winning a gold medal at the National Exposition in his native Turin. By 1902, however, having internalized the paintings of Jan Vermeer, he began to incorporate a new poeticism in his photographs, creating luminescent and strong chiaroscuro effects within intimate, domestic arrangements. That year, in the exhibition Fotografia Artistica, he was lauded by his contemporaries for his fresh approach. Through his written contributions to the Studio, exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and London, and inclusion of two photographs in Camera Work in 1908, Rey became of the best known Italian pictorialists. K.L.C.

Artworks

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Camera Work

A. Horsley Hinton

Alfred Stieglitz

Alice M. Boughton

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Anne W. Brigman

Arthur Allen Lewis

Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore

Baron Adolph de Meyer

C. Yarnall Abbott

Clarence H. White

David Octavius Hill

E.M. Bane

Edward Steichen

Ema Spencer

Eva Watson-Schutze

F. Benedict Herzog

Francis Bruguière

Frank Eugene

Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Pratt

George Davison

George Bernard Shaw

George H. Seeley

Gertrude Käsebier

Guido Rey

Hans Watzek

Harold Mortimer-Lamb

Harry Rubincam

Heinrich Kuehn

Herbert G. French

Hugo Henneberg

J. Craig Annan

John Francis Strauss

Joseph T. Keiley

Julia Margaret Cameron

Karl F. Struss

Marshall R. Kernochan

Oskar Hofmeister

Paul Strand

Paul B. Haviland

Prescott Adamson

René Le Bègue

Robert Adamson

Robert Demachy

Sarah C. Sears

Theodor Hofmeister

W.W. Renwick

William B. Dyer

William B. Post

William E. Wilmerding