Art Books - Please Please return Polaroid
16 September 2023
Andy Warhol took to Polaroid like a Pop art duck to water, but its spontaneity seems a less obvious fit for Miles Aldridge, the British fashion photographer know for his artfully staged, hyper-stylised pin-ups – often caught in unsettling positions, yet always without a hair out of place. Yet Aldridge’s new book, Please Please Return Polaroid, makes brilliant use of the form’s retro aesthetics, in a series of cut-up and scribbled-on studies for his later, meticulous shoots. Steidl £54