LIN ZHIPENG
123 POLAROIDS
Published by Super Labo, 2021
Book size 13 x 20 cm
Pages 120 Pages, 123 images (color)
Hardcover
First edition
ISBN 978-4-908512-94-0
123 Polaroids is not simply a selection of 123 images from 223's extensive and fabulous collection of Polaroid work, on which he embarked in the early 2000s from his hometown of Guangzhou, China. It is a deep dive into his intimate memories of dear ones, his inexpensive Polaroid films and his travels across China, Tibet, South East Asia, Japan and Europe. It is a panoply of his love, fashionable nudity, of expressive glaring portraits, of colorful landscapes and people, of embracing bodies in playful melancholy, of eroticism, of a sense of absence and untold more, all fashioned by the touch of the stunning imperfections of this medium and the master's talent.
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123 Polaroids is not simply a selection of 123 images from 223’s vast and fabulous collection of Polaroid work, which the artist embarked on in the early 2000s from his hometown of Guangzhou, China. It is a deep dive into his intimate memories of loved ones, his cheap Polaroid films, and his travels through China, Tibet, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Europe. It is a panoply of his love, of fashionable nudity, of expressive and flagrant portraits, of colorful landscapes and people, of bodies entwined in playful melancholy, of eroticism, of a sense of absence, and more, all shaped by the touch of the astonishing imperfections of the medium and the master’s talent.