Period of Juvenile Prosperity Mike Brodie train hopping itinerant youth homeless

Gift quality. Brand New. Sealed in original publisher shrinkwrap.MIKE BRODIE : the itinerant photographswalking, hitchhiking, and freight train hoppingHis portraits of fellow rail-riders have a soft, romantic warmth that belies Brodie's earnestness. A Period of Juvenile Prosperity , Brodie's first book, was named one of the best photo books of 2013 by the Guardian , the New York Times , the Telegraph and American Photo Magazine . Mike Brodie (born 1985) began his photography career while hitchhiking across the United States. He is best known for his images of young rail-riders and nomads and became known as the "Polaroid Kid" among this itinerant community. "  At 17 Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to home in Pensacola, Florida thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, Alabama. Instead, the train took him in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, Florida. Days later he rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked something in him and he began to wander across America by any means that were free "" walking, hitchhiking, and train hopping. Shortly after his travels began he found a 35mm camera stuffed behind a car seat and began to take pictures. He has spent years crisscrossing the USA documenting his experiences, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of personal travel photography. When asked about his approach to travel and photography he says "sometimes I take a train the wrong way or]]whatever happens a photo will come out of it, so it doesn't really matter where I end up.", "A vivid photographic record of a teen subculture living a perilous life on the tracks  " - the GuardianSince that first train ride, Brodie has ridden over 50,000 miles through forty-six states, documenting the people and places he encountered along the way. From 2004 to 2006, Brodie shot exclusively on SX-70 Time-Zero film, earning him the moniker the Polaroid Kidd: a name he would tag on boxcars and walls. When Time-Zero film was discontinued, Brodie moved from these carefully framed gems to more candid moments shooting with a 1980 Nikon F3 with 35mm film from 2006 to 2009. The immediacy of the photographic medium combined with Brodie’s innocence of spirit and raw approach provides a distinct style and authentic voice within the lexicon of photographic history that is so uniquely his own, while simultaneously characteristically American. One never to gravitate towards attention, as soon as Brodie began gaining fame for his images, he retreated into obscurity, focusing his obsession on becoming a diesel mechanic: a job that he currently pursues in Oakland with the same passion he approached to image-making.

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