Matthew Houston - Terri - 5x4" Polaroid

Unico Polaroid 5x4"
Polaroid
Firmato sul retro.
Anche la carta di provenienza accompagnatoria è firmata e porta il timbro dello studio.
In ottime condizioni
Non montato - posizionato su cartoncino museale in sleeve Mylar archivistico
In scatola archivistica
Spedito piatto con protezione rigida tramite posta raccomandata.

Il materiale Polaroid è la Polaroid di prima generazione basata su carta, nota come 'peel-apart' Polaroid e disponibile nei formati 10x8", 5x4" e 3x4" fino all'inizio del 2000, quando è stato interrotto. Da non confondere con il materiale 'integral' ora prodotto da Polaroid Originals. Si tratta di una stampa 'Type 54'.

Matthew Houston (Londra 1961) noto principalmente per la serie Catalogue of Chaos - un'esplorazione approfondita dei materiali e dei processi della fotografia. Ha esposto ampiamente in Europa da Kettle's Yard a Cambridge, UK nel 1986 fino alle mostre più recenti a Parigi con Art-Icon maggio 2026.

Questa è una fotografia tratta da una serie di Polaroid e stampe c-type avviate verso la fine degli anni '90.

"Matthew Houston studied printmaking at the Central School of Art, London, and later earned a First Class degree in photography from the London College of Printing. He began photographing models, actors, and dancers on a small stage he built while running a cabaret on a sailing ship. This stage was the setting for many of his large-format photographs and Polaroids in the late 1990s. Houston notes that the stage itself suggested the inclusion of a person and acted as a pedestal for his subjects. His photographs are known for their intimate often nostalgic qualities and are the result of an "open experiment" with his subjects. He focuses on finding common ground with the model and capturing what happens naturally. His photographs sometimes include subtle references to mythological figures and paintings. This is not meant to be a fixed theme, but a "gentle reference" that emerged from the stage-like setting of his early portraits."*
*Dalla catalogo di mostra, Londra 2014

"The little stage I built was part of the studio and I began to make photographs of performers, friends, actors and models. Using Polaroid film gave the material a chance to be part of the picture as well. Polaroid is known for all kinds of quirks and accidents that are a reminder of process. As with other photographs I've made I feel it important that material and process are still included, still evident.”**
**Da intervista - Saatch Art

Un estratto da una recensione di una mostra che ho scoperto - BIP off, Liegi - di Philippe Herbert
"Parcours atypique : ancien propriétaire d’un cabaret, il photographie depuis l’âge de 7 ans mais il a commencé cette série à 38 ans. Sur une scène improvisée, il photographie au Polaroïd grand format des femmes dénudées avec beaucoup de tendresse. Il renouvelle le genre du nu."