Signed; Nino Migliori - Instant - 1999

An exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Nino Migliori (born in 1926); unique and unavailable signed copy and extremely rare unsigned copy. 80 pages and about a hundred color photographs from Polaroids, text in Italian and English by Paolo Barbaro. Sturdy flexible illustrated cover. In excellent condition, practically like new.

The photographs reproduced in this book were taken with a Polaroid camera, but to make each photograph Nino Migliori noted that it took him a good half hour. He explored various possibilities of manipulating the Polaroid support through “Polapressure,” a technique that involves intervening during the development of a Polaroid with spatulas and sharp tips, influencing its texture and composition through gestures—and with outcomes—that recall painting. This technique gives a dreamy, both real and fictitious look that fully justifies the title of “unfaithful landscapes,” challenging the notion of realism. Hand-retouched, some of Nino Migliori’s instant photographs almost become impressionist paintings.

Nino Migliori (born in 1926) began taking photographs in 1948 as a self-taught photographer and quickly joined the same photographic circle as Mario Giacomelli, Piergiorgio Branzi, and a few others; the “Misa” itself arising from the group “La Bussola” led by Giuseppe Cavalli. A leading figure of the Neorealist school of photography, Migliori produced a rich and meaningful body of work in postwar Italy. Alongside his depiction of reality, Migliori engaged in various creative experiments to conceive new images with techniques such as oxidation, pyrograms, and hydrograms, as well as older techniques like camera-less photography and photograms. With Polaroid he explored the possibility of leaving his own imprint on photographic paper during the short development period, “the image developed before my eyes and, little by little, signs of red, yellow, and black formed, depending on the intensity of the pressure.” An artist of remarkable youth, Nino Migliori opened in spring 2024 a grand exhibition at the Ferrara Ducal Palace titled “An Endless Search,” and on May 15, 2026 he inaugurated another major exhibition in the city of Alba in the company of his friend Ferdinando Scianna, in the year of his centenary.

Book from my personal collection in excellent condition, practically like new, kept with the utmost care. Protected shipping with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international tracking. For multiple purchases, possible grouped shipment with reimbursement of excess postage paid via PayPal.

0.6 kg excluding packaging