{"product_id":"miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid","title":"Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid","description":"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a process once integral to the craft of many photographers but now more or less extinct, apart from the rare and out-of-date material traded on eBay for exorbitant prices.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","brand":"Steidl Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40903068942421,"sku":"9783958297487N","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/d7695d59-58e1-486e-8ff6-34b29edb3c2f.jpg?v=1727254807","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}