Carlo Mollino Polaroids - Hardcover

Mollino, Carlo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8862083785 ISBN 13: 9788862083782

Publisher: Damiani, 2014

Synopsis

After the success of Polaroids published in 2000, Damiani announces the second edition with a new cover. Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) was one of the most inspired mid-20th-century architects and designers. In a career that spanned more than four decades, Mollino designed buildings, homes, cars, aircraft, women's fashion, and theater sets. He was a renaissance man who sought to articulate movement and sensuality in his designs. Even more compelling are the magically surreal Polaroid images Mollino made in his Turin studio during the last 14 years of his life, seen here in the first-ever collection of Mollino's carefully honed erotic photographs of women. From 1,500 works, the Ferraris have culled over 250 representative images in which Molino posed his models in evocative clothing, staged the backdrops, and finally, altered the photos with a microscopic paintbrush to attain his ideal view of the female form. Only a few of Mollino's Polaroids have ever been viewed by the public.

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Title: Carlo Mollino( Polaroids) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: NapoleoneFerrari <>Publisher: Damiani/Crump

Review

Gift Guide: Books--The Editors "Yahoo: Style "

Carlo Mollino: Polaroids is a collection of these photographs, selected from the roughly 1200 surviving Polaroids, never exhibited during his life, which were found following his death in 1973. The images are best described by adjectives closely associated with the presence of money: rich, sumptuous, lavish. They are all eroticized images of women, but the subject is not sex. It's clear that more so than the human body, Mollino was attracted to the aesthetic abstraction of beauty as a lifestyle. The photographs have been composed, staged and directed with the desire to conquer nature with artifice.

The eros in Mollino's work assumes a melancholy, poisonous aspect with the understanding of the circumstances of its production: part of an aging bachelor's desire to perfect the decoration of his house. There is something of satyriasis, or Don Juanism, the male equivalent of nymphomania, in Mollino's work, as if they were undertaken compulsively, and perhaps without joy, as part of a doomed project to reach an unattainable ideal: the tragic desire to keep thousands of women in an empty house.--Owen Campbell "American Suburb X "

'Carlo Mollino: Polaroids' was published, revealing a number of the more than 1,200 photographs Mollino had taken of women in the semi-nude-a cache that remained a secret until after his death in 1973. This October, the book will be re-released with a new cover that will no doubt delight new and old Mollino fans alike.--Sherri Balefsky "Cultured "

Sheer Magic: Channel the women from the new book CARLO MOLLINO: POLAROIDS (Damiani) which inspired our photo shoot--Karin Nelson "W Magazine "

About this edition

• Publisher: Damiani
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 8862083785
• ISBN 13: 9788862083782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 272