Burden of Wings

By Mauro Marinelli

I used the Polaroid as a painter might use a sketchpad. I shot freely and, as the images appeared, I loved how the Polaroid interpreted what I saw. The limitations of the plastic lens softened the features captured in stone; the softened stone wings became real wings. Mauro Marinelli's iconic cemetery images captured on Polaroid juxtapose the inherent contradictions of the immediate moment: instant and everlasting. In homage to the sixteenth-century style of Nature Morte, the stone of mortuary sculptures softens like flesh and graveside tokens and bouquets of flowers depict life becoming death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3868285644
• ISBN13: 9783868285642
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.1"