Livre Épuisé / Out of Print Book.
Exemplaire État Neuf provenant d’une collection privée / Copy as New from a Private Collection.
Paolo Roversi est connu internationalement pour ses images et portraits de mode romantiques, intenses et éthérés, des photographies qui frémissent au bord de leur existence apparemment fragile. Une image typique de Roversi apparaît comme capturée dans le processus de devenir–elle se développe sur la page sous nos yeux ou, selon la perspective, elle pourrait simplement disparaître dans l’éther. Depuis 1980, Roversi travaille principalement avec des polaroïds de 8 pouces par 10 pouces, et rarement sur place. Studio est une étape importante dans sa bibliographie en plein essor. Conçu comme une série de 60 gatefolds, à première vue le livre semble être une collection de pages vides. L’expérience du regard s’apparente à celle de l’épluchage de la feuille d’un Polaroid, de la noirceur d’une image qui se révèle comme par magie. Dans des images qui représentent près de deux décennies de travail, la collection offre un autoportrait de l’artiste et une fenêtre sur le lieu où il crée son art. Ces photographies sont un mélange à la fois du publié et du très personnel, mais toutes ont l’intimité engendrée par cet endroit où Roversi se sent le plus à l’aise ; photos en couleurs.
Paolo Roversi is known internationally for his romantic, intense, and ethereal fashion images and portraits, photographs that quiver on the edge of their own seemingly fragile existence. A typical Roversi picture appears as if captured in the process of becoming–it develops on the page before our very eyes or, depending on perspective, it might simply vanish into the ether. Since 1980 Roversi has worked primarily with 8-by-10 inch Polaroids, and rarely on location. Studio is a milestone in his burgeoning bibliography. Designed as a series of 60 gatefolds, at first glance the book appears to be a collection of empty pages. The experience of looking is akin to that of peeling away the leaf from a Polaroid–out of the blackness an image is revealed as if by magic. In images that represent nearly two decades of work, the collection offers a self-portrait of the artist and a window into the place where he creates his art. These photographs are a mix of both the published and the highly personal, but all have the intimacy engendered by that place where Roversi feels most at home.
Within the confines of his Paris studio, Roversi photographs subjects in 8×10 Polaroid format, often allowing his images to fade before fixing them to their substrate. His long exposures at close range harness an aesthetic from the earliest days of studio photography, but with a renewed urgency that wavers somewhere between history and apparition.
Stripped of the usual accoutrements of studio portraiture, Roversi’s subjects push back with a vulnerable intensity that reveals as much of the photographer as of the model. The images collected here function not only as a series of individual portraits, but also as a collective self-portrait of the artist and the place that stands at the center of his work.
