The Decemberists accompany a new album with an epic Polaroid project

Rock photographer Autumn de Wilde has brought her brand of nostalgic, whimsical photography to bands ranging from Pavement to Willie Nelson, Beck and Elliott Smith. This time she’s outdone herself with a Polaroid project involving more than 2,000 shots of one band — and it’s no surprise that the group involved in this large and absurd undertaking is the seafaring, storytelling band the Decemberists.