Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project

By David Horvitz

As tour manager and official chronicler of the immensely popular indie rock band Xiu Xiu, David Horvitz devised the idea to document the bands tours by encouraging fans to bring Polaroid film to shows. Photographs of life on the road from towering truck-stop beacons reaching out into huge blue sky to motel room antics were shot and returned to the fans, but not before Horvitz scanned them and meticulously compiled a visual tour diary that goes well beyond the music. He captures the bare-naked zen of touring life: parties, sex, soulful meditation, art, back roads, Americana. These images echo the bands esoteric lyrical styles and the merging of seemingly disparate genres such as punk, classical and electronic that end up saying more about the varied American landscape than the band, though it is through the band that these images are filtered. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979048656
• ISBN13: 9780979048654
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 7.8"