Please Return Polaroid

Please Return Polaroid
Author: Miles Aldridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Instant photography
ISBN: 9783958290990

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In this book Miles Aldridge delves into his Polaroid archive -- venturing back through twenty years of enhancing, modifying, reassembling and discarding. Many of these Polaroids were intentionally annotated or accidentally damaged while working on different shoots. Liberated from their original context, the images take on a life of their own by evolving into surreal and cinematic narratives. By enlarging and manipulating the Polaroids in unpredictable ways, Aldridge devotes himself to each Polaroid as an independent image while simultaneously learning to appreciate the importance of flaws and imperfections. This book provides us with a rare insight into a photographer's odyssey; an unfolding journey of the imagination in parallel to his working process.

Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid

Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid
Author:
Publisher: Steidl
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9783958297487

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A new installment in Miles Aldridge's ongoing homage to, and plea for the revival of, Polaroid film The sequel to Miles Aldridge's (born 1964) Please Return Polaroid(2016), this book presents new and vintage Polaroids from the British photographer's more than 20-year archive, in a seemingly random sequence shaped by a dreamlike logic and surprising juxtapositions. Please Please Return Polaroidexplores 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, transforming some into extreme enlargements filling double pages with their reworked and damaged surfaces.

Miles Aldridge

Miles Aldridge
Author: Miles Aldridge
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847840360

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The first monograph from the brilliant fashion photographer Miles Aldridge. With a cinematic approach to fashion photography, Miles Aldridge creates singular scenes with psychologically complex characters in surreal and fantastic settings. His brilliant, candy-colored images engage viewers with an appealing mix of overt sexuality and sweetness. No detail is left uncovered in his eye-popping, erotically charged fashion photographs, which transform slightly sordid scenarios into acid-hued glamour. Each photograph is a complex world unto itself, and these lush images invite viewers to linger, for there is always something else to see, some deeper layer of meaning to uncover. Including hand-drawn storyboards that Aldridge uses to fix the idea of a shoot in his mind, as well as previously unpublished material, this monograph is filled with intimate insight into the photographer’s point of view and process. With deliciously naughty scenes and lushly evocative photography, this book lures readers into Aldridge’s irresistible world.

The Polaroid Book

The Polaroid Book
Author: Barbara Hitchcock
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2005
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9783822830727

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In existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, and Robert Rauschenberg. The Polaroid Book, a survey of this remarkable collection, pays tribute to a medium that defies the digital age and remains a favorite among artists for its quirky look and instantly gratifying, one-of-kind images. ? over 400 works from the Polaroid Collection ? essay by Polaroid's Barbara Hitchcock illuminating the beginnings and history of the collection ? technical reference section featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras

Other Pictures

Other Pictures
Author: Miles Aldridge
Publisher: Steidl
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Artist families
ISBN: 9783869304373

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Other Pictures is Miles Aldridge's surreal take on the traditional family album, and an autobiographical sequel to Pictures for Photographs (Edition 7L, 2009), in which Aldridge presented his fashion drawings and photographs. Other Pictures opens with seductive black and white images of Aldridge's then lover, now wife, model Kristen McMenamy. Taken in hotel rooms after fashion shows from London to New York between 1994 and 1997, the photos are spontaneous and narcissistic, and show the young Aldridge investigating the medium of 35 mm photography as much as his unfolding romance with McMenamy. The second part of Other Pictures is an introspective portrait in deep colour of Aldridge's married life with children. Cinematic and beautiful but filled with anxiety, these images show Aldridge's children as vacant and sometimes corpse-like actors in the photographer's imagined drama of family life.

The Polaroid Years

The Polaroid Years
Author: Mary-Kay Lombino
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Instant photography
ISBN: 9783791352640

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From its inception in 1947, the Polaroid system inspired artists to experiment - to dazzling effect - with the cameras' unique technologies. Edwin Land, the inventor of the first Polaroid instant camera, remarked on his discovery, "Photography will never be the same." And he was right. This fascinating journey through the Polaroid era documents the evolution of instant photography. Hundreds of color images celebrate the myriad ways Polaroid photographs were used and ingeniously manipulated by Chuck Close, Walker Evans, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, and others. In addition, the book features essays addressing the unique technology of instant photography and the marketing genius of the Polaroid Corporation. Interviews with artists reveal how Polaroids affected and, in many instances, forever changed the way artists captured the world around them. AUTHOR: Mary-Kay Lombino is the Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She has curated several exhibitions including Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books and Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography. ILLUSTRATIONS: 230 photos

A Thousand Things

A Thousand Things
Author: Jason Mraz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Instant photography
ISBN: 9780615194691

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Acid Candy

Acid Candy
Author: Miles Aldridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2008
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9789071848056

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For Miles Aldridge Acid Candy' refers to the hard boiled sweets he had as a kid. But  this spirit is also found in the photographic dreams he constructs using a bright, almost plastic, coloured palette in order to illustrate fashions for potential buyers. In admiration, David Lynch describes his work as a colour coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality'. Here some 70 full page, colour photographs created for leading fashion magazines such as Vogue, Numero and Paradis are presented.

Diego Uchitel

Diego Uchitel
Author: Diane Von Furstenberg
Publisher: Damiani Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9788862082396

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Behind Photographs

Behind Photographs
Author: Tim Mantoani
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2012
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780982613795

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"Behind Photographs began as the personal quest of photographer Tim Mantoani to document and preserve noted photographers together with their images. "We have come to a point in history where we are losing both photographic recording mediumsphotographic recording mediums and iconic photographers," Mantoani comments. "While many people are familiar with iconic photographs, the general public has no idea of who created them. This book became a means to do that, the photographer and their photograph in one image."--Publisher's website, https://www.channelphotographics.com/behdinphotographs.php, viewed February 6, 2012.