{"title":"Miles Aldridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiles Aldridge\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a striking exploration of contemporary visual culture through his vibrant and evocative works. Readers will find a captivating blend of photography and art that challenges conventional perspectives and celebrates bold colour palettes and compositional precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for enthusiasts of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Aldridge’s books provide an immersive experience into the world of modern visual storytelling, showcasing a unique fusion of glamour, surrealism, and artistic flair.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"miles-aldridge-please-please-return-polaroid-by-miles-aldridge-9783958297487","title":"Miles Aldridge: Please Please Return Polaroid","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Please Return Polaroid\u003c\/em\u003e 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a process once integral to the craft of many photographers but now more or less extinct, apart from the rare and out-of-date material traded on eBay for exorbitant prices.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 \u003cem\u003ePlease Return Polaroid\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Please Return Polaroid\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 re-worked and damaged surfaces. Long live Polaroid!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiles sees a color-coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality.\u003c\/em\u003e - David Lynch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431612006636,"sku":"9783958297487","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958297487.jpg?v=1774557486"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/miles-aldridge.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}