Please Please Return Polaroid
Verlag | Steidl |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 204 |
Format | 29,9 x 2,1 x 30,1 cm |
Gewicht | 1905 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 395829748X |
EAN | 9783958297487 |
Bestell-Nr | 95829748A |
Please Please Return Polaroid is Miles Aldridge's ongoing love letter to Polaroid, a process once integral to the craft of many photographers but now more or less extinct, apart from the rare and out-of-date material traded on eBay for exorbitant prices. The sequel to Aldridge's Please Return Polaroid of 2016, this book presents new and vintage Polaroids from his more than 20-year archive in a seemingly random sequence shaped by a dreamlike logic and surprising juxtapositions.Please Please Return Polaroid explores Aldridge's dedication to analogue processes where cut-and-paste is still a manual process, made with scissors, gaffer tape, intuition and not a little patience. Aldridge continues to use Polaroids as part of his work-in-progress "sketches," often scratching, tearing and taping them together, even drawing over them; each mark part of the creative act. Known for creating immaculate photos of a less than perfect world, Aldridge revels in these unpolished images, transformin g some into extreme enlargements filling double pages with their re-worked and damaged surfaces. Long live Polaroid!