... his earlier black-and-white photographs, which, if not made for publication, were made as fine prints, ‘formally signed,’ and therefore implicitly ready for public display, but the polaroids were a private kink. these polaroids were meant to be a sort of 'book of the dead', the ancient egypts placed beside the mummy (containing rituals to identify the dead, pleadings in their favor to the gods, enumerating the dead person’s achievements…). created in the confines of casa mollino and villa zaira, each shoot was a sort of ceremony. mollino incessantly controlled every aspect of these remarkable images, from choosing the clothing and fine lingerie the women wore to the precise posing and staging, often photographing the women against curtain drops or tiled floors, with objects he owned or on furniture he designed. --- ‘carlo mollino polaroid’ this book is reproducing more than 250 examples texts by fulvio ferrari and napoleone ferrari http://www.arenaeditions.com/mollino.html back