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Carlo Mollino: Polaroids

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The discovery of Carlo Mollino's Polaroids is of the greatest gifts of photography in the 20th century. Mollinos images provide for us a tangible perception of an intimate moment between a subject and the artist. His methods resemble the simplicity of his design, elegant, erotic, silent and real, images captured like collectible stamps, put away and now rediscovered.

An absolute must for any Photographic Collector,

MY STORY

I stumbled upon the book in Brisbane/Australia 2003, I was walking through a "SALE" bookstore. Five red books caught my eye a small photo placed on the front, I picked it up opened the first three pages and took it strait to the counter. The girl opened the back page and asked for $8 Australian, I only had $10 on me and made the purchase. I grabbed a $50 from the ATM and caught a bus back to West End where I was staying(driver was not happy about the $50 note), I begun to casually view my purchase with absolutely no idea of what I had purchased. The bus stopped 20 minutes latter at my destination I frantically ran down the street to catch the bus back to the city again I missed it and hailed a cab. I had no breath as I looked to the place the remaining four books had been sitting, ... now empty, I raced to the counter requesting if they had any more copies of the book "Sorry Mate, I just sold the last one". I was devastated I new it was a moment I would never forget, or regret I had discovered a Genius and one of the biggest discoveries in my photographic life.

I bought this book at the recommendation of a friend. He loved this book and so do I. The book is filled with old polaroids of women in various states of undress from clothed to fully nude. The shots are not crisp, and some tend to be poorly lit, yet they feel very real. The images are almost alive, and the women very sensous. And as most women of the time used to be, they are quite real. Their bodies reveal the natural beauty that women used to have without all of the plastic and fakeness that we see today. I don't think there is a silicon breast in any of the photos, and i loved every image becuase of it.

Fulvio Ferrari's Carlo Mollino Polaroids gathers a range of small color vintage photos of women. Chapters provide intriguing images which are diverse and unusual. An excellent art library acquisition, especially for collections strong in photography.