Photograph © Mike Brodie
Photograph © Mike Brodie
Photograph © Mike Brodie
Photograph © Mike Brodie
Photograph © Mike Brodie
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“Mike Brodie spent years crisscrossing the U.S. amassing a collection, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of American travel photography. At 17 he hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, FL thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, AL. Instead the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, FL. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked something and he began to wander across the U.S. by any means that were free - walking, hitchhiking and train hopping. Shortly after, he found a Polaroid camera stuffed behind a car seat. With no training in photography and coke-bottle glasses, the instant camera was an opening for Brodie to document his experiences. As a way of staying in touch with his transient community, he shared his pictures on various websites gaining the moniker “The Polaroid Kidd”. When the Polaroid film he used was discontinued, Brodie switched to 35mm film and a sturdy 1980’s camera.”–Twin Palms
Book
Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
First Edition, Casebound
Twin Palms Publishers
First Edition, Casebound
Twin Palms Publishers
Exhibitions
Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity
March 7–April 6, 2013
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity
16 Mar - 11 May 2013
M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity
March 7–April 6, 2013
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity
16 Mar - 11 May 2013
M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
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