MIKE BRODIE: TIMES OF DIRT AND BONE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY Les Amies de Place Blanche

Les Amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm is a masterful photobook capturing the lives and personalities of women in Paris’ vibrant Pigalle district

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A clean near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a good dust jacket with some minor wear

and a deep sensitivity to the people and places that shape a life

delicately probing at the legibility of our material surroundings and the people closest to us

MIKE BRODIE: TIMES OF DIRT AND BONE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY Les Amies de Place BlancheABOUT: Before A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, there were the days of the Polaroid Kidd. In the early 2000s, Mike Brodie first found his way into photography via the SX 70 camera. It was the last gasp of the golden era of Time Zero, and the film was Brodies gateway. It was expensive, ten sheets to a roll, but he appreciated its inherent limitations; its idiosyncrasies, the way it brought out the tones of the railroad. He liked the way you could