CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/2/2015

Type 42: Fame Is the Name of the Game

Featured image, of Brigitte Bardot in the horror anthology Histoires Extraordinaires (Spirits of the Dead) by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, is one of 950 Type 42 Polaroids made by an anonymous photographer from TV screens in the late 1960s. It is reproduced from the enigmatic and perfect new collection, Type 2: Fame Is the Name of the Game, one of Dan Nadel's Best Books of 2015. In her introduction, Cindy Sherman writes, "It's an exhaustive study of what it is to be a woman–as if the photographer was seeking the essence of women–so carefully capturing faces close up. Or or it could be someone obsessed with celebrity, actresses on TV or in films or merely someone seeking to capture some televised titillation via Hollywood or soap operas… There are no conclusions I can make other than the mystery they provided me."