Pyramids - Mike Slack
Pyramids is the third and final instalment in Mike Slack's Polaroid series. Named after a set of three identical early-70s office buildings located in Slack's hometown of Indianapolis, Pyramids draws our attention to the familiar -- the arm rest on a park bench, a public telephone sign, a lone boulder, and a moth basking in the sunlight. Thanks to The Ice Plant (Los Angeles).
Pyramids builds on the striking Polaroid aesthetic of Mike Slack’s previous books, Ok Ok Ok (2002) and Scorpio (2006), rounding out a trilogy of stand-alone volumes that together contain 123 pictures. This collection records everyday details of what could be a recent past or a very near future—a dust storm in the desert, simple geometry, stairways and windows, schoolchildren on a field trip—quietly dramatic scenes energized by a sense of anticipation rather than nostalgia. Presented as physical artifacts of fictitious events to be deciphered by the viewer, the pictures also document the travels, observations and graphic fixations of the photographer, centering on a set of three identical early-70’s office buildings (in Slack’s hometown of Indianapolis), from which the book takes its title.
Mike Slack lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. His photographs have appeared in Harper’s, GOOD, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles Museum of Art.
80 pages, 23 x 18 cm, hardcover, The Ice Plant (Los Angeles).