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Carlo Mollino Polaroids DAMIANI 2014 second edition hardcover Pre-owned
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Pre-owned book. Slightly Scratched on the cover. Good condition.”
- ISBN
- 9788862083782
- Book Title
- Carlo Mollino Polaroids
- Item Length
- 10.7in
- Publisher
- Damiani
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Photography
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 8.7in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In a career that spanned more than four decades, Carlo Mollino designed buildings, homes, furniture, cars and aircraft. One of the most dashing figures of mid-century Italy, Mollino was famed for his design finesse and his elegant organicism. In 1949 he published an important book on photography: Message from the Darkroom . Sometime around 1960, he 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. Only a few were ever publically shown, until the acclaimed first edition of this volume was published by James Crump in 2002. Reviewing that book, The New Yorker declared, "This lavish selection of several hundred Polaroids preserves the essential mystery of a project both decadent and hermetic. Though clearly the product of a deep obsession, the photographs are deliberately impersonal, each baroque detail an invitation for the viewer to imagine Mollino's encounters with the women." Now back in print, with a newly designed cover, this beautiful volume offers a captivating portrait of a unique erotic sensibility. Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) studied mechanical engineering, art history and architecture before working in the architectural practice of his father, Eugenio Mollino, in Turin. His first architectural masterpiece was the Turin Equestrian Association headquarters (1937). In 1965 he designed the Teatro Regio in Turin, which is now regarded as one of his best works. A 1949 Mollino table was sold at auction by Christie's in 2005 for a staggering $3.8 million. In 1960-68 he designed an enigmatic apartment for himself that today has become the Museo Casa Mollino.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Damiani
ISBN-10
8862083785
ISBN-13
9788862083782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210349517
Product Key Features
Book Title
Carlo Mollino Polaroids
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Photography
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.7in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
8.7in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Tr676
Reviews
Sheer Magic: Channel the women from the new book CARLO MOLLINO: POLAROIDS (Damiani) which inspired our photo shoot, 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., '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.
Copyright Date
2014
Dewey Decimal
779.28092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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