The exhibition explores the work of three emblematic figures in the history of photography, analysing how the treatment of the nude has evolved from an academic exercise to an introspective investigation, often crossing into an obsessive and disturbing dimension.
Auguste Belloc's contribution is represented by twenty-four stereoscopies from the National Cinema Museum's collection of erotic photography: the exhibition allows for an immersive experience through the use of vintage viewers that restore the original three-dimensionality to the reproductions of vintage prints.
At the same time, the work of Wilhelm von Gloeden, documented through eight vintage prints and fifteen exhibition prints from original negatives from the Alinari Foundation, bears witness to the construction of an idealised Mediterranean imagery.
Finally, the exhibition moves into the 20th century with thirty Polaroids by Carlo Mollino preserved at the Polytechnic University of Turin, part of an extensive photographic collection comprising almost 15,000 phototypes. This section is the only one in colour in the exhibition and reveals the complex poetics of the Turin architect through female portraits characterised by a sophisticated interplay of costumes and transparencies.
Piazza Castello 209, Torino