Synopsis
This work contains text by Napoleone Ferrari. The Italian photographer Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) exercised total control over the photographic setting, always using interiors and always a private space for his nude images of women. He was indifferent to the purity of the shot, freely practicing total manipulation of negatives and prints. Ferrari states: "His 1950s pictures clearly present a traditional and pictorial composition of the image, albeit more dynamic and less intentionally symbolic than those of the 1930s ...The background disappeared almost entirely in favour of the subject; the body was no longer merely a receptacle for aesthetic and literary values, it became charged with an eroticism that stemmed also from the psyche, the bodies were not necessarily beautiful and a certain crudeness certainly made the pictures more modern."
