Video: Blooming Youth Time: Mike Brodie's Road Romance
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is the first book by acclaimed photographer Mike Brodie, the American railroad romance and network hero known as The Polaroid Kid.
At the age of 17, Mike Brodie first jumped on a train near his parents' home in Florida with the idea of visiting a friend who lived in Mobile, Alabama. The plan was good, but it failed miserably, because the train was heading in the opposite direction - to Jacksonville. A few days later Brodie returned home on the same train. Nevertheless, this episode did not pass without a trace. Mike felt the urge to change places and began to travel around the United States by all available means of transportation: on foot, by hitchhiking and by train (of course, without worrying about buying tickets). One day, during another escapade, he found an old Polaroid SX-70 in the back seat of his friend's car. Thus began his love affair with photography.
Brody began documenting the history of his vagrancy. If he didn’t have the money to buy camera cassettes, he could always grab them from the nearest supermarket. Whenever possible, Mike posted his pictures on the Internet and quickly gained fame under the nickname "The Polaroid Kid".
The public loved Brody's photographs with a sense of complete freedom and independence. The life of the heroes of his photographs is the absolute antithesis of the "American Dream". These are people who, by the will of circumstances or of their own free will, on the sidelines in the literal and figurative sense. They live on the road. They don’t need time off because they don’t have a permanent job, and they don’t need to go home because their home is the contents of a backpack behind their backs. Goths, punks, hippies and just vagabonds - they all seem to have descended from the pages of the novels of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs. The pictures of their daily life, no matter how dirty, hungry and cruel it may be, have the specific charm of beatnik romance with its search for the meaning of life, enlightenment, unity with nature and perfect freedom.
Mike is now twenty-seven and lives in Oakland, California. After spending several years on trains, Brody became interested in their device and, having stopped filming for a while, learned to be a rolling stock mechanic. After all, as he has repeatedly stated in interviews, photography was and remains his favorite hobby, but he never set himself the goal of becoming a professional photographer. Which, however, did not prevent him from holding several personal exhibitions and, in March of this year, to publish his first book - "A Period of Juvenile Prosperity".
Polaroid photographs are never too few, says Patrick Winfield, and they make up huge, bright pictures from square photographs.
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