Roversi, Paolo — Paolo Roversi: Studio (limited edition)

Gottingen, Steidldangin, 2005 Softcover, foldout images, pages not numbered, 33 x 30 cm, b/w photographic reproductions. (757/1000) *very fine condition, missing slipcase ISBN 386521164x. Studio features nearly two decades of Paolo Roversi's hugely influential studio portraiture. Now released in an unlimited edition, Studio promises a closer look at this distinctive body of work, as striking as it is hauntingly familiar. Within the confines of his Paris studio, Roversi photographs subjects in 8x10 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 ccollected 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. Beautiful images - Roversi looks deeply into his model's soul This is a simple demonstration of his studio design and a reflection of his skill and philosophy, expressive and honest.