Lyndsey Ingram
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artists
  • New Acquisitions
  • Exhibitions
  • Fairs
  • Diary
  • Video
  • Publications
  • Viewing room
  • Contact
Menu

Please Return Polaroid, 2016: Miles Aldridge

Past exhibition
16 - 21 May 2016
  • Overview
  • Installation Views
  • Press
  • Publications
  • Press release
Miles Aldridge - Please return polaroid overview image

The Polaroids chosen for this exhibition were selected by the artist from his archive compiled from a prolific career of film and magazine assignments spanning almost two decades.

 

In the early 1990s, when Aldridge embarked upon a career in editorial fashion photography, using Polaroid was a standard part of a photographer’s working method. Using a Rolleiflex enabled Aldridge to switch between Polaroid and regular film on the same camera. On set, these instant snapshots develop within minutes, and allow Aldridge to check and manipulate the scene quickly, adjusting set and model before changing to standard film to shoot the final image. Aldridge has remained committed to shooting in film, enjoying the 1940s/50s painterly Hollywood aesthetic that celluloid allows. Today, he continues to use Polaroids to pre-check and document his shoots.

 

Each of the selected works is a unique object that has taken on new life beyond its preparatory intention. The chosen Polaroids have elements of intrigue, a model caught between poses; or evidence of the artist’s handling, a melted surface, creases, tears and annotations. The figure is often blurred, or completely absent, ambiguities which create an abstract, cinematic narrative of their own.

  • e-catalogue
  • Request More Information

Related artist

  • Miles Aldridge-Ex-Libris-Clos-Up-Detail

    Miles Aldridge

Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Back to exhibitions
Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2020 Lyndsey Ingram. All rights reserved.
Site by Artlogic

Lyndsey Ingram 

20 Bourdon Street, London W1K 3PL
Contact 
www.lyndseyingram.com

Pinterest, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Send an email
View on Google Maps