The diary of Tom Wilkins : also known as My Tv girls / Sébastien Girard.

"Tom is American. He lives by himself. TV keeps him busy. In 1978, he buys a polaroid camera and spends 4 years photographing the women who inhabit his TV screen. Moreover, he carefully writes on each print a caption and the date. Over 4 years, Tom assembles an extraordinary diary, a silver harem of a thousand annotated polaroids arranged in albums, all titled My Tv girls. Following the disappearance of its author, this lot was put up for sale on auctions together with other belongings. Simultaneously interested by this story of appropriation and fascinated by Tom's visual diary, I decide to buy this archive. I then study them and recreate their incantatory dimension in a book, ten years later. Starring features this time the integrality of the polaroid series across 110 pages : 911 reproduced photographs, dated, numbered and annotated by its author. This second book in this project will also reveal the identity of the author for the first time thru an amazing self-portrait in front of a mirror, the only found object with the author's name written on it"--Artist statement on sebastiengirard.com, viewed November 30, 2018.