A newly released book of his photography entitled I Only Want You to Love Me features a cast of look-a-like “Western” models. And by “Western,” Aldridge means white.
"My gaze, my radar is a middle class or upper class white woman," Aldridge says.
I Only Want You To Love Me cover; Aldridge quoted from an interview with Bullett magazine.
Via: Miles Aldridge: I Only Want You to Love Me; Rizzoli, New York 2013.
And so I Only Want You To Love Me is filled with suitably porcelain-skinned caricatures. Rich white women lying on nice carpets, for example.
Via: Miles Aldridge: I Only Want You to Love Me; Rizzoli, New York 2013.
Rich women eating caviar faux-seductively.
Via: Miles Aldridge: I Only Want You to Love Me; Rizzoli, New York 2013.
Rich white women appearing on Extreme Couponers
"This week my local supermarket has baked beans on sale at $1.49 and I have a coupon for $1.50 off so I'm going to buy 600 tins and then throw them all away because I don't even know what baked beans are."
Via: Miles Aldridge: I Only Want You to Love Me; Rizzoli, New York 2013.