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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MILES ALDRIDGE: Pictures for Photographs
Exhibition: May 28 – June 20, 2009
Reception and Book Signing: May 28th, 6-8pm
Dinner: May 28th, hosted by James Gager, Senior Vice President/Creative Director, M·A·C
Cosmetics
The Steven Kasher Gallery is honored to present Miles Aldridge: Pictures for Photographs.
The exhibition will include over 25 large scale color photographs as well as a selection of the
artist’s sketchbooks and drawings. It will launch the artist’s monograph Miles Aldridge:
Pictures for Photographs (Editions 7L/Steidl, 2009). This is Aldridge’s first solo U.S.
exhibition.
Miles Aldridge’s images depict a stupendously glossy and magnetically vibrant world with ultra
slick, hyper-lit models, signature acid tones, and mysterious narratives. Cinematic expression
marks Aldridge’s work; his dream-driven, erotic style has been compared to Bergman, Bunuel,
David Lynch, and Hitchcock. Aldridge is first of all an artist of the subconscious, secondly a
fashion photographer.
Aldridge’s photographs are as much about sex as they are about fashion. We experience the
opulent onslaught for which Aldridge is known: a blonde woman eating lobster and caviar with
an exposed breast, an erotic couple in a darkened limousine, a school girl surrounded by her
teddy bears, and even crying Madonnas. Pictures for Photographs explores the delectable
relationship between Aldridge’s drawings and photographs. Scrawled in pen or pencil, the
black-and-white drawings generate ideas for potential photographs and map out series of
pictures like a film storyboard. Sometimes dotted with raunchy hand-written notes -- such as
“green/yellow bra” or “painting nipples with lipstick” -- Aldridge’s drawings
are crucial to his
photographs. By setting Aldridge’s monotone drawings and the amplified, Pop-inspired color of
the photographs against each other, Pictures for Photographs offers insight into Aldridge’s
imagination and working process.
Aldridge is one of the artists highlighted in the current ICP exhibition Weird Beauty: Fashion
Photography Now (Open through May 3, 2009). His photograph Spot the Fake #1 was the
signature image of the show, featured on the ICP brochure and website, and in the coverage in
the New York Times, the New Yorker and elsewhere.
Aldridge, born in 1964, lives and works in London. His work has been exhibited in exhibitions
worldwide, with pieces residing in many significant public and private collections. Aldridge has
published several books of photographs, most recently: The Cabinet, 2007, with an
introduction by Marilyn Manson, Acid Candy, 2008, with an introduction by Glenn O’Brien,
and Miles Aldridge: Pictures for Photographs, 2009.
James Gager, Senior Vice President/Creative Director, M·A·C Cosmetics Worldwide will host
an exclusive dinner in honor of Miles Aldridge’s exhibition. M·A·C Cosmetics has a long-
standing relationship with Aldridge as they have collaborated on nearly every beauty image for
the brand over the past 5 years.
Miles Aldridge: Pictures for Photographs will be on view May 28th through June 20th,
2009.
Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 6pm.
For more info or press requests please contact Kat Jones
at 212 966 3978 or kat@stevenkasher.com.
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