“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. I know it’s morbid but it’s life” – Mike Brodie
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Mike Brodie’s Pictures of the Fascinating, Fleeting Train Rider Subculture | AnOther
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Valladolid : Mike Brodie , Train and Freedom – The Eye of Photography
Valladolid : Mike Brodie , Train and Freedom
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 magnificent books published when he stopped taking pictures. He lived as an outsider hoping trains crossing United States.
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Juxtapoz Editions: Photography Zine
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Editions: Photography ZineOur newest Juxtapoz Editions release is Photography, a 32-page zine featuring some of the most influential names and talents in contemporary photographer. Starting with cover artist Roger Ballen, our Photography zine includes Mike Brodie, Alex Prager, Tim Barber, Swampy, Jennilee Marigomen, Bill Daniel, Tod Seelie, Daniel Arnold, Asger Carlsen, Austin McManus, Yumiko Utsu, Gregory Halpern, and Peter Sutherland
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After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Link: After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity – LightBoxMike 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 SX-70 and some stale bagels on his first train-hopping experience across the United States.
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Mike Brodie by Elizabeth Avedon
Link: Mike Brodie by Elizabeth Avedon | Le Journal de la PhotographieMike 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
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Mike Brodie’s New Photo Book Documents Raw Moments Between His Freighthopping Friends
Link: Mike Brodie’s New Photo Book Documents Raw Moments Between His Freighthopping Friends | Feature ShootThe 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.
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Pictures from Mike Brodie’s A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Link: Slide Show: Pictures from Mike Brodie’s A Period of Juvenile Prosperity : The New YorkerMike Brodie says that he never really wanted to be an artist. But he’s travelled over fifty thousand miles by train, lived with an underground rock band in Philadelphia and with vegans in Portland, and photographed it all. His images—of trains with the earth flying by, of a tender sleeping embrace—are touching and terrifying, exciting and raw
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Mike Brodie, Pensacola
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.