by Mike Slack
ISBN: 0977648109
This book is a lot like Slack’s OK OK OK, down to the size and fabric and polaroids on the covers, the same lack of any textual explication, and the same magic in the everyday that is so wonderfully — if you are a fan — expressed with integral polaroid film.
These series of images, each on its own page with no facing picture, invite you to make your own connections (shape? texture? color? tone? mood?) as you move from one image to the next. The one-sided affair makes it seem as if you were looking at a stack of polaroids, rather than flipping pages in a book, only with more white space, an empty distraction-free zone around the pictures.
Either you find this kind of thing fascinating and are easily absorbed in the polaroids, or you don’t. If you don’t, I imagine you’d be frustrated, fed up with the lack of spelled out story or even backstory, and wondering why a photographer in this day and age would even want to work with polaroids because they are small, soft, and imprecise compared to digitally captured and perfected pictures. In my opinion you’d be missing out, but to each their own. Like to look at photos? Invent your own stories to go with them? Then check this out. Recommended.
