RECOMMENDED: Mike Brodie Photography 2004-2008 / revisited 2023 📸

American photographer. "Polaroid Kid".

From 2004 to 2008, Brodie freighthopped across the US, photographing people he encountered, largely train-hoppers, vagabonds, squatters, and hobos. He published the photography books A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (2013) and Tones of Dirt and Bone (2015). - Wikipédia.

A PERIOD OF JUVENILE PROSPERITY

TONES OF DIRT AND BONE

„Mike Brodie began photographing when he was given a Polaroid camera in 2004. Working under the moniker 'The Polaroid Kidd,' Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the United States, amassing an archive of photographs that make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Brodie made work in the tradition of photographers like Robert Frank, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, but due to never having undergone any formal training he always remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of art market.

Brodie compulsively documented his exploration of the tumultuous world of transient subcultures without regard to how the photographs would exist beyond him. After feeling as though he documented all that he could of his subject, his insatiable wanderlust found a new passion, and as quickly as he began making photographs, he has left the medium to continue in his constant pursuit of new adventures.” - mbphoto.com

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