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Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid

- Steidl
- Miles Aldridge
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Publisher | Steidl |
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ISBN | 9783958297487 |
Author(s) | Miles Aldridge |
Publication date | June 2022 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 295 x 295 mm |
Pages | 208 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
Please Please Return Polaroid is Miles AldridgeÆs 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a process once integral to the craft of many photographers but now more or less extinct, apart from the rare and out-of-date material traded on eBay for exorbitant prices.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 AldridgeÆs 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 AldridgeÆs 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 ôsketches,ö 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, transforming some into ex

Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid