POLAROÏDS ITALIENS by François Halard

フランス人フォトグラファー、フランソワ・アラール（François Halard）の作品集。本書は2017年12月にイギリス・ロンドンのオークションハウス「サザビーズ（Sotheby's）」で開催された同名の展覧会に伴い、オーストラリア人アートディーラー、キュレーターであるオスカー・ハンフリーズ（Oscar Humphries）、サザビーズ、イギリスの出版社IDEAにより共同刊行された。作者の写真は絵画と共通する性質を多分に持っており、撮影される場所には客観性や説明的な要素が介在せず、個人的なニュアンスを持つ作者独自の心象風景を写し出している。カプリ島に建つクルツィオ・マラパルテの別荘（マラパルテ邸）やローマ郊外のサイ・トゥオンブリーのスタジオといった特定の場所を記録しているにもかかわらず、作者の持つ独特の雰囲気を醸し出し、現代の建築や内装、庭園写真における優れた年代史記録者のような存在として評価されている。イタリアにある数々の著名な場所を記録した本作は、作者の視点を通すことによって観るものへ新しい発見を与えている。書籍や雑誌によく掲載されているような完成形のイメージに対し、作者は多くの場合自然光を用いて撮影を行っており、ポラロイドフィルムという媒体によってスケッチあるいは習作のようなタッチを演出する。この一連のユニークなポラロイド写真は1980年代半ばから現在までの間に撮影され、展覧会開始の約2週間前までフランスのアルルに設けられた作者の個人的なアーカイブの一部を成していた。

はじめてイタリアを訪れたのは16歳のときでした。ヴェローナにほど近い、ルネサンス期に作られた「ジュスティ庭園（Giardino Giusti）」をモノクロで撮影したことを覚えています。そこが、家や場所、庭、作家や遺物を撮影し続ける「Italian Grand Tour」、その構想の始まりでした。美しいものに囲まれることは人生の助けとなります。美は、魂を豊かにする薬なのです。– フランソワ・アラール

Published by Oscar Humphries in collaboration with Sotheby's and IDEA to celebrate the exhibition François Halard: Polaroïds Italiens at Sotheby's London in December 2017. A selection of full colour and black and white plates of polaroids from the exhibition accompanied by an introduction by Oscar Humphries and quotes by the photographer. Tipped in print and gold embossing on cardboard cover with gold foil backing. The exhibition is the first presentation of François Halard's oeuvre in England. Halard's work has as much in common with painting as it does with photography. His images are personal impressions of the places they record – never literal or clinical, they are always nuanced. The particular atmospheres of his photographs, whether recording the Villa Malaparte in Capri or Cy Twombly’s Studio outside Rome, have made him the most well regarded and accomplished chronicler of interiors, architecture and gardens of our time. The works in this exhibition record some of Italy’s most eminent places but through the photographer's unique perspective we see them anew. Halard shoots on film, often using natural light, and the Polaroids presented here are studies – sketches if you will – of the finished photographs that have appeared in various books and magazines. These unique Polaroids were made between the mid-1980s to the present-day, and until a fortnight ago they formed part of the photographer's personal archive in Arles.

'I was 16 when I first went to Italy. I remember photographing in black and white an Italian Renaissance garden near Verona: ‘Giardino Giusti’. It was the beginning of a collection of houses, places, gardens, artists and ruins... my own idea of the Italian Grand Tour. When you surround yourself with beauty, it helps you go on. Beauty is medicine for the soul.' – François Halard

by François Halard

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softcover
60 pages
220 x 280 mm
color, black and white
2017

published by OSCAR HUMPHRIES

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