Polaroids


2013

Polaroids


2013

Unlike painting, photography is based on additive color theory, in which the primary colors are red, green, and blue, and yellow is simply the result of red and green light. The images are constructed from layers of paper exposed multiple times to generate different colors and shapes. These photographs were taken with one of the few Polaroid 20 x 24″ cameras that exist in the world. Although the result is a two-dimensional photographic image, the edge of the piece makes evident the developing process. In this way, the work produces a tension between the intangible and the concrete to reveal the raw material that constitutes the photographic process, creating the illusion of an architectural space.

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Fabiola Menchelli
Yellow and purple polaroid, 2013
20 x 24″ Polaroid print
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Fabiola Menchelli
Pink and red polaroid, 2013
20 x 24″ Polaroid print
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Fabiola Menchelli
Green and blue polaroid, 2013
20 x 24″ Polaroid print
MassArt Studio with 20 x 24″ Polaroid Camera, 2013
Fabiola Menchelli, Mathew Corning & Robin Meyers
Photograph by Matthew Monteith