GUIDO HARARI
 

1971-73
 
Guido Harari begins his twofold activity as both photographer and music critic, thus establishing the premises for a specialist freelance profession without precedent in Italy. His first assignments are for the weekly Giovani and he regularly contributes a music review column to the monthly Discoteca Alta Fedeltà. He follows on tour Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, John Mayall, Alexis Korner, Santana, Frank Zappa, Area, PFM and Banco.

1975-79
 
Produces his first record covers (Klaus Schulze Moondawn, Mirage, Body Love; De André & PFM In concerto; Soft Machine Softs; Gianna Nannini Una radura). Based in London for a while, he contributes to the magazines Gong, Ciao 2001 and the French Rock & Folk, with interviews and portraits of, amongst other artists, Bob Marley, Carlos Santana and Frank Zappa.

1979-81
 
Fascinated by Lindsay Kemp’s unique combination of theatre and music, he follows the English dancer and mime artist on tour, subsequently producing a book with the artist, Lindsay Kemp (Editoriale Domus, 1982). This experience leads to a form of complicit creativity which will be recreated in a similar vein, a few years later, with the American dancer Daniel Ezralow and Pippo Delbono’s theatre company.

1982
 
Makes his first journey to the US for a cover story on Frank Zappa for Uomo Vogue and for a reportage on Dire Straits recording their Tunnel Of Love album in NYC. He regularly contributes interviews and photographs to such magazines as Rockstar and Linea Italiana. He conceives and directs a massive editorial project on the rock scene for Fabbri and produces one of the first video-based TV shows, Music Mag, for the Swiss Italian Television.

1983-84
 
Rockshots (Turin, Milan, Barcelona) is his first exhibition with ambient music specially provided by Peter Gabriel and David Sylvian.

1984-90
 
Tours constantly with rock celebrities and, over the years, will create countless record covers for artists such as Afterhours, Claudio Baglioni – together they produce the best selling book Notti di note (Rusconi Libri, 1985) followed in 1986 by the equally successful Assolo. Non solo -, Andrea Bocelli, Angelo Branduardi, Vinicio Capossela, Paolo Conte, Pino Daniele, Fabrizio De André, Eugenio Finardi, Ivano Fossati, Enzo Jannacci, Ligabue, Fiorella Mannoia, Mia Martini, Milva, Gianna Nannini, PFM and Vasco Rossi.
Internationally, he produces album covers and tour photography for Kate Bush, David Crosby, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, B.B. King, Ute Lemper, Little Steven, Paul McCartney, Pat Metheny, Michael Nyman, Lou Reed, Santana, Simple Minds (in 1991 his pictures of the Scottish band are featured in the The Art of Selling Songs exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum), Frank Zappa and many more.

1991-92
 
His activities now include advertising and fashion photography as well as social reportage. He now works regularly with such magazines as King, Moda and Max. His activity as a music photographer is celebrated in a new and bigger retrospective Goodbyes & Hellos (Milan, Bologna) to tie in with the book Guido Harari. Fotografie in musica (Rusconi Libri, 1992).

1994
 
Starts collaborating with Contrasto photo agency but maintains his independence of both spirit and projects.

1995
 
Publishes a new book, Il Circo di Paolo Rossi. Sotto un cielo di gomma (Baldini & Castoldi) with a reportage on the successful summer tour of Paolo Rossi and his wild company of fellow comedians.

1996-98
 
In the wake of Beppe Severgnini’s eponymous TV programme, a new exhibition project takes shape, Italians / Italiani nel Duemila. This is a collection of more than 130 portraits of the most internationally significant Italian celebrities exhibited in Bologna and New York. For a brief period he works with Teatro alla Scala and the Scala Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Riccardo Muti.

1998-99
 
His new book Barboni. Il teatro di Pippo Delbono (Ubulibri, 1999) is based on a long reportage around the world with Delbono’s theatre company.
With journalist Massimo Cotto, he works for the magazine Amica on a series of portraits of the most significant Italian singer-songwriters - Baglioni, Capossela and Fossati, amongst others - in the places made famous by their best-known songs .

2001-03
 
Assuming the role of a camera-less photographer he edits Fabrizio De André. E poi, il futuro (Mondadori, 2001), a pictorial biography of the life and times of the legendary singer-songwriter. Easy task as he had been one of his personal photographers for more than two decades. The book’s success is fuelled by the exhibition Fabrizio de André. Tempo sopra tempo. He now works regularly for Italian magazines Gentleman, Sport Week, Io Donna and L’Espresso as well as for Time and People.

2003
 
Time for a new exhibition of music portraits, Strange Angels (Nuages Edizioni) and a book plus exhibition based on a reportage with the maxillo-facial surgeons of Progetto Sorriso nel mondo on their mission in Khulna, Bangladesh.

2004
 
Publishes with Fernanda Pivano The Beat Goes On (Mondadori) – a photographic diary of Nanda’s literary adventures with Pavese, De André, Hemingway, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Dylan and entire generations of American writers..

2005
 
Publishes with Alberto Fiore Viaggio a Garessio / Journey to Garessio (Bosio Editore). The publication extensively reviews the historical and artistic aspects of this medieval town in the province of Cuneo, including profiles of numerous personalities of local and international renown, such as car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro.

2006
 
Launches The Blue Room, a new exhibition of his music portraits. Goes back to one of his favourite themes shooting a reportage on medicine, public health and scientific research in the Milano area for 12 Corse, a major exhibition project commissioned by the Provincia di Milano. Publishes for the first time a series of his historical images of No.1 Italian rockstar Vasco Rossi in Vasco!, Edel’s first Italian earBook.