Carlo Molino. Un Messagio dalla Camera Oscura

Carlo Mollino: Un Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura documents for the first time the photographer’s private Polaroid work alongside related visual material,

revealing a lesser-known dimension of Carlo Mollino’s practice. Mollino (1905–1973), primarily celebrated as an architect and designer, also produced an extensive body of staged portrait photography of women between the 1960s and early 1970s. These intimate Polaroid portraits, long held privately and never published during his lifetime, combine careful staging, costuming, and interior settings with Mollino’s characteristic interest in form, composition, and the body. The volume contrasts these images with objects and interiors from Mollino’s Turin residences, integrating visual documentation with scholarly texts that contextualize the work within his broader oeuvre.