{"product_id":"miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid-9783958297487","title":"Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new installment in Miles Aldridge's ongoing homage to, and plea for the revival of, Polaroid film\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sequel to Miles Aldridge's (born 1964) \u003ci\u003ePlease Return Polaroid\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlease Please Return Polaroid\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnown 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783958297487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Miles Aldridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43075585638581,"sku":"9783958297487","price":49.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9514c64c-a890-44ef-9a31-f722cb24dd07.jpg?v=1691469284","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid-9783958297487","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}