Mike Slack

Mike Slack was born in Indiana in 1970, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His photographs have appeared in Harper's, GOOD, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek.

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MIKE SLACK: PYRAMIDS
THE ICE PLANT
ISBN: 9780982365311 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2009
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MIKE SLACK: SCORPIO
THE ICE PLANT
ISBN: 9780977648108 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2006
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MIKE SLACK: OK OK OK
THE ICE PLANT
ISBN: 9780977648122 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2006
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MIKE SLACK COLLECTOR'S EDITION #09
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ISBN: IP005 | US $450.00
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MIKE SLACK COLLECTOR'S EDITION #03
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ISBN: IP004 | US $450.00
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MIKE SLACK: HIGH TIDE
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Mike Slack

Polaroids by Mike Slack, from Pyramids.

Mike Slack: Pyramids

Published by The Ice Plant

Mike Slack’s Pyramids builds on the striking Polaroid aesthetic of his 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 1970s office buildings (in Slack's hometown of Indianapolis), from which the book takes its title.

Mike Slack: Scorpio

Published by The Ice Plant

In his second book of Polaroids, Scorpio, Mike Slack charts a familiar but undetermined terrain through fragments of architecture, geology and space. Designed as a companion to Ok Ok Ok (2002), this collection begins with what appears to be a fallen asteroid and ends with what might be a stray, mythical dog--evocative bookends to a kind of travel narrative (or psychic puzzle) in which Slack's mastery of the Polaroid medium infuses commonplace observations with hints of a lingering, otherworldly past.

Mike Slack: OK OK OK

Published by The Ice Plant

Originally published in 2002 by J&L Books, OK OK OK quickly sold out. It was described by Printed Matter as "a series of beautifully composed Polaroids. Sequenced like a dream, the nameless places and close-up abstractions...belong together but to a different time, or maybe a different world."

Mike Slack Collector's Edition #09

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Mike Slack Collector's Edition #03

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Mike Slack: High Tide

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This expanded edition of Mike Slack's High Tide collects a series of evocative Polaroid close-ups of film actors paused in apparent states of calm. "More like meditating than acting," wrote Jeffrey Ladd about the limited 2006 edition, "each seems to have momentarily dropped their profession and found a personal truth."