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[Nude]
Carlo Mollino Italian
Not on view
Carlo Mollino was an eccentric Italian furniture designer and architect who made more than a thousand nude studies of young women at his luxe homes in Turin. The photographs teeter on the edge of salaciousness and were virtually unknown until after Mollino’s death. Nonetheless, they fit the artist’s penchant for employing curving lines in his furniture, architecture, and race cars. Mollino seems to have taken particular advantage of the freedom of the Polaroid camera, including its obviation of the darkroom, to produce vast numbers of photographs at the end of his life, perhaps as an effort to stave off the inevitable. The seeming informality of these pictures belies a careful aesthetic strategy—a kind of late-in-life lyrical autoeroticism.
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![[Nude], Carlo Mollino (Italian, 1905–1973), Instant dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid)](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
