Carlo Mollino: Polaroids
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Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2012.
Second Edition. Hardcover.
A private photographic collection of mid-century Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-1973). In around 1960, Mollino began to photograph dancers in late night session in his villa in Turin. He used a polaroid camera, posing the models in carefully selected wigs, clothing, and accessories against backdrops he had designed for the purpose. The photographs were painstakingly altered with a fine brush. Some 1,200 of these erotic photographs were discovered after Mollino's death in 1973. This selection of his photographs was first published by James Crump in 2002.
Item #902288ISBN: 8862083785
8-3/4 x 10-3/4", red paper over boards with color photograph pasted-on front board, gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, 272pp, fully illustrated with the designer's color photographs in the original size (1-4 photographs per page).
Rubbing with a few abrasion to boards, else near fine, a tight and square copy, clean of owner’s marks.
Price: $250.00