{"product_id":"miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid-hardcover","title":"Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiles Aldridge\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eMichael Bracewell\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 11.8 x 11.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156497469575,"sku":"9783958297487","price":62.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fdb0c4e93df79aae416ecc4690b064a5.webp?v=1733244168","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}