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(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2012. Second Edition (First Thus) 1/500. 8vo. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New./As New.. np (96pp), 45 color illustrations + color cover. "High Tide" is Mike Slack's collection of beautifully reproduced Polaroids taken from a monitor screen in which each of its slightly-distorted subjects fills the frame, eyes closed, in a seeming state of meditative bliss. Originally published in conjunction with a 2006 exhibition of the work at Marfa's Galleri Urbane, it includes images of such iconic actors and actresses as Jack Nicholson, Nancy Allen, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, Sean Young, Barry Newman, and many more. A pristine copy in the publisher's plastic pouch of the first printing of the revised and expanded 2012 edition of this cult favorite limited to five hundred copies SIGNED "Mike Slack" in black ink on the rear colophon. 0-9823653-8-1 Inventory Number: 021902