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Polaroids

Polaroids

Second edition, 2014

Hardback (01 Sep 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Sometime around 1960, Carlo Mollino began to seek out women - mostly dancers - in his native Turin, inviting them to his villa for late-night modeling sessions. The models would pose against extraordinary backdrops, designed by Mollino, in clothing, wigs and accessories that he had carefully selected. Finally, having printed the Polaroids, Mollino would painstakingly amend them with an extremely fine brush, to attain his idealized vision of the female form. The pictures, which totaled around 1,200, remained a secret until after his death, in 1973. This volume offers a captivating portrait of a unique erotic sensibility.

About the Publisher

Damiani

Damiani was founded in May 2004 as the new publishing branch of the printing company, Grafiche Damiani, in Bologna. Damiani was set up in the 1950s to specialize in art and photography lithographic printing. Today, Damiani continues this long-held tradition, aiming at producing volumes characterized by high handmade quality and innovative technology. What distinguishes Damiani is the attention devoted to exploring and understanding the forms of the contemporary imagination. Besides the projects concerning the unpublished activity by leading figures from the art and photography world, Damiani also constitutes an observatory of the new generations of international artists and of social phenomena, which meet with the solid architecture of accurately edited books, creating real art objects.

Book information

ISBN: 9788862083782
Publisher: Damiani
Imprint: Damiani
Pub date:
Edition: Second edition, 2014
DEWEY: 779.28092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 271
Weight: 1618g
Height: 275mm
Width: 221mm
Spine width: 29mm