My Tv
Girls
Edition of 75
Book
My Tv girls
Author
Sébastien Girard
Date
2017
very large softcover, 256 pages, dark blue painted fore-edge.
printed and hand-bound by Sébastien Girard in his studio.
XL book, 29,5 x 37 cm (11.6 x 14.6 in)
Edition of 75 copies
Signed and numbered
Tom is American. He lives by himself. TV keeps him busy. In 1978, he buys a polaroid camera and spends 4 years photographing the women who inhabit his TV screen.
Moreover, he carefully writes on each print a caption and the date. Over 4 years, Tom assembles an extraordinary diary, a silver harem of a thousand annotated polaroids arranged in albums, all titled My Tv girls.
Following the disappearance of its author, this lot was put up for sale on auctions together with other belongings.
Simultaneously interested by this story of appropriation and fascinated by Tom’s visual diary, I decide to buy this archive.
I then study them and recreate their incantatory dimension in a book, ten years later.
Listed among the best books of 2017 by dutch curator and artist, Erik Kessels
