There is something quite endearing about harking back to one’s formative years for inspiration. Take Andy Warhol’s famous pop-art depictions of Campbell’s soup - which he ate every night for dinner - or Edvard Munch’s macabre paintings, which stem from the ghost stories his father read to him as a child. More recently, it’s British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge taking inspiration from his younger years.
A compact mirror in his mother’s lacquered handbag; a beaten up paisley sofa; an old television set— these are the memories Aldridge associates with childhood. At 58-years-old, he is among a group of like-minded contemporary artists, who have established themselves through a preoccupation with nostalgia.
