CHOCOLATE BY MARC LAGRANGE

A selection of mostly unpublished photos, photographed with the rare Polaroid 100 Chocolate film, compiled from Marc Lagrange's archives.

Another emblematic publication from a master of nude portraiture, Marc Lagrange, author of two other successful titles with teNeues, Diamonds & Pearlset SenzaParole.
Photographer Marc Lagrange had the gift of illuminating intoxicating beauty and communicating timeless elegance.

Fills with nostalgia and sensuality, her photographs are a celebration of fantasy and desire. In the early 90s, Lagrange began to work quite intensively with Polaroid film, and his nude portrait regained a more dramatic and touching aspect.

As a medium, Polaroid film fits perfectly with his aesthetic and artistic vision and quickly becomes a means of expression for him. The Belgian artist particularly fell in love with the unique quality and the light brown tone-on-tone coloring of the rare Polaroid 100 Chocolate, one of the last types of film ever produced before the final closure of the Polaroid factory in 2009. Chocolate presents a series attractive collection of largely unpublished works by Marc Lagrange on Polaroid Chocolate film. More than preliminary studies of his sophisticated image compositions, the photographs impress with their warm colors, raw textures and pictorial aesthetics. Polaroids are a vivid example of his art.

Detail-oriented photographer Marc Lagrange was one of the most original and talented portrait and nude photographers in the world. In his own way, he painstakingly composed opulent and timeless sets to create his voluptuous scenes. Critically acclaimed images from another world that are collected and exhibited around the world.