Pidgin Snaps – A Boxette

By Jonathan Meades

100 quirky Meades original photos, in a box, for Christmas

Non fiction
138% funded
405 supporters
Published

Publication date: November 2013

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$7 
41 pledges

Virtual Box

Digital edition of Meades’s snaps and text.

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$25  + shipping
231 pledges

Real Box

Limited edition boxette + virtual edition

$40  + shipping
137 pledges

Collectable Box

Signed edition boxette + virtual edition

$150  + shipping
8 pledges

Party

All the above + 2 tickets to the launch party at somewhere suitably Meadesian.

$250  + shipping
10 pledges

Lunch

Everything up to party level + a ticket to lunch with Jonathan, with his own set menu and wines (central London - 20 places only)

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PLEASE NOTE: Pidgin Snaps is now in production so your name can not be listed in the back of the box. However, you can pre-order a copy of the special Unbound Limited edition that will not be available in the shops.

Why?
Photographs are a way of making the seemingly banal fascinating and calling into question the very idea of banality. Perhaps banality doesn't exist.
 
The concentration demanded is akin to the concentration demanded by writing, by making film. But photography is also a tool that is useful in those disciplines. I don't mean photographs as a visual notebook — I am suspicious of employing photos as an aide-memoire. Rather the act of photography makes the (potential) photographer look more intently. You don't passively survey: you gape, you stare. And you reinvent the world, you shape it.

At least you do so if your name is Brandt or Sternfeld or Witkin or Arbus.

Me, I just take Pidgin Snaps.

What?
It’s a box. A boxed set. A boxette. Containing 100 colour postcard-sized snaps of places with brief oblique texts about them on the back of the card. By me. For you to use (or abuse). Or give. Or keep.

If you like the idea, pledge at one of the levels opposite and we’ll aim to have a lovely, shiny boxette with you (or a loved one) in November.

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$7 
41 pledges

Virtual Box

Digital edition of Meades’s snaps and text.

Buy now
$25  + shipping
231 pledges

Real Box

Limited edition boxette + virtual edition