Coast to Coast, Aurélien Mole
isbn 978-2-488732-01-7
128 pages
format 15,5 × 25 cm
softcover
graphic design: syndicat
2026
26€
Using expired Polaroid film, Aurélien Mole created a series of photographs featuring American cars, most of which date from the 1970s. Because the chemicals required to develop these images had partially evaporated, only a small portion of each Polaroid’s light-sensitive surface actually developed. Arranged according to the extent of the development process, this series of 63 images documents a journey across the United States—from Boston to San Francisco—undertaken by Aurélien Mole in 2005. The work also speaks to two bygone golden ages: that of the automobile and that of instant photography.
Through interventions by the press operators during the printing of the cover, each copy is rendered unique and resonate to the various chemical alterations found in the Polaroids reproduced within the book.