A very odd thing happened to me recently. It is a kind of magical experience when you meet someone who is the subject of a well-known photograph. Imagine running into one of Rineke Dijkstra's swimmers...
The photographer isn't famous yet, but 21-year-old Mike Brodie has certainly garnered a lot of attention as the Polaroid Kidd including a show at Bonni Benrubi and a review in the New Yorker. Brodie is a modern day hobo, a train rider armed with a camera, a cell phone and a laptop. I discovered his work at Get This! Gallery in Atlanta where owner Lloyd Benjamin met Brodie on the trains last year. The image at left "Anna & Horse Pony" was taken in 2006 near Pensacola Florida.
On Wednesday while walking the 5 blocks to my gallery, I was waiting with two young adults to cross the street. I looked. And looked again:
"Your name is Anna right?"
yes
"You own a little stuffed unicorn right?"
yes
"You know Mike Brodie don't you?"
yes
And the rest is history........
this is wonderful.
the funnier thing is Lloyd called me and told me you ran into anna as i was hangin a photograph of her at a show i was having here in my hometown of pensacola, florida...
ps. i dont travel with a laptop!!!!!!
Posted by: THE POLAROID KIDD | May 05, 2007 at 09:41 PM
Nice moment, kinda shrinks the world don't it?
Posted by: harold hollingsworth | May 14, 2007 at 08:30 PM
thats a great story, love the photograph too!!
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Posted by: nicholas forrest | May 16, 2007 at 08:16 PM