Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid

By: Aldridge, Miles

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a process once integral to the craft of many photographers but now more or less extinct, apart from the rare and out-of-date material traded on eBay for exorbitant prices.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, transforming some into extreme enlargements filling double pages with their re-worked and damaged surfaces. Long live Polaroid! Miles sees a color-coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality. -David Lynch

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 395829748X
• ISBN13: 9783958297487
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 4.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.8" x 11.8"