Tag: Mike Brodie

  • Mike Brodie’s Pictures of the Fascinating, Fleeting Train Rider Subculture | AnOther

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    Mike Brodie’s Pictures of the Fascinating, Fleeting Train Rider Subculture via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13347/mike-brodies-pictures-of-the-fascinating-fleeting-train-rider-subculture “I’m fascinated by death and I’m fascinated by reality and not just for shock’s sake. It’s just part of our life. To this day it still haunts me and I always wish I just would have run back and photographed the body.…

  • Mike Brodie by Elizabeth Avedon

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    Link: Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions about how he taught himself to make such well-crafted photos when he had never trained as a photographer

  • After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

    After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Mike Brodie is easy to mythologize. A teenager-turned-supertramp (a term usually used to describe youth eager to travel by whatever means and for as little money as possible) Brodie became a darling of the photography world after carting an old Polaroid…

  • Valladolid : Mike Brodie , Train and Freedom – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: From March 7th to April 17th Fundacion Municipal de Valladolid is presenting “Train and Freedom” by Mike Brodie in the venue of Sala San Benito. Mike Brodie is a phenomenon , a natural talented teenager, who got immediately famous through social media and was later celebrated by the art critics thanks to the two…

  • Juxtapoz Editions: Photography Zine

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Editions: Photography Zine Our newest Juxtapoz Editions release is Photography, a 32-page zine featuring some of the most influential names and talents in contemporary photograp… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/juxtapoz-editions-photography-zine Our newest Juxtapoz Editions release is Photography, a 32-page zine featuring some of the most influential names and talents in contemporary photographer. Starting with…

  • Mike Brodie’s New Photo Book Documents Raw Moments Between His Freighthopping Friends

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    Link: Mike Brodie’s New Photo Book Documents Raw Moments Between His Freighthopping Friends | Feature Shoot The next time I heard anything about Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kidd, was when I learned his photographs of his freight train-hopping peers were hanging in the Louvre as part of the Paris International Photo Fair in 2006.

  • Pictures from Mike Brodie’s A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

    Pictures from Mike Brodie’s A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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    Mike Brodie’s “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” Mike Brodie’s images—of trains with the earth flying by, of a tender sleeping embrace—are touching and terrifying, exciting and raw. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/slide-show-pictures-from-mike-brodies-a-period-of-juvenile-prosperity.html#slide_ss_0=1 Mike Brodie says that he never really wanted to be an artist. But he’s travelled over fifty thousand miles by train, lived with…

  • Mike Brodie, Pensacola

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    From Feature Shoot: Mike Brodie is a self-trained photographer from Pensacola, Florida, better known by the alter-ego, The Polaroid Kidd. At the age of eighteen, Brodie traveled the railroads of America, pending three years photographing the people he encountered along the way with his trusty Polaroid SX-70. Check it out here.