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Edo Bertoglio : New York Polaroids 1976-1989

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Since the ‘60s, the use of Polaroid films has been a new frontier, an obvious and unavoidable instrument for immediacy whose emotional, informal and generational potentialities Edo Bertoglio has well understood and employed since the very first moment. New York Polaroids 1976-1989 is the culmination of his personal diary that covers more than ten years, in which the Swiss photographer and filmmaker used the camera as a pop and documentary tool. We find his friends and some of the most important artists of the New York of that era, including Arto Lindsay, Grace Jones, Maripol, Glenn O’Brien, Debbie Harry, Madonna, Andy Warhol and John Lurie.

Everything started between 5th and 34th Street, on a clear and cold afternoon, Maripol and I ran into one of those sudden strong gusts of wind that make you feel weirdly uncomfortable and estranged, kind of out of context. All of a sudden we hugged, with tears in our eyes, terrified by the metropolis, by our own loneliness and the lack of stable work. Attempting to overcome our own feelings, we walked right up to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building where the warmth of the light eventually welcomed us and showed  us the very essence of the city, the clouds, and the skyscrapers, the river and the ocean. It was certainly clear that New York was the only place where we wanted to stay. That city was going to be the luminous background of my photographs».
Edo Bertoglio

BOOK
New York Polaroids 1976-1989
By Edo Bertoglio
Text by Mariuccia Casadio and interview with the artist by Stefano Bianchi
Yard Press

232 pages
18,5x27cm
Paperback
twist-stitching
Faux leather cover
Offset
500 copies
35€
http://www.yardpress.it

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