Posts by: bonanos
A positive notice from the big book-trade journal this week. Or, as it might be phrased on the jacket of some future edition:
Publishers Weekly calls INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID “concise and in-depth … carefully constructed … fascinating.”
I thought this was just a whim on the part of a product designer, a few months ago: a little digicam built to resemble Instagram’s logo. I did a gag post about it then, then another when the idea gathered a little momentum. And this week Wired is reporting that it’s […]
Probably about 1959.
Polaroid, once a sponsor of Paar’s show, used to have him do live demonstrations on the air, to show off their technology without a safety net. This is a still from YouTube’s particularly antic example, mock-sabotaged by madman Jerry Lewis.
Recently, my friends at The Impossible Project arranged to offer a special slipcased edition of INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID. The book is paired with a second smaller volume, Faces of Polaroid, for which I ran around New England photographing the people who, a generation ago, made this technology. (The photos were shot […]
Canada has a knack for offering good things slightly before the United States does (universal health care, women’s suffrage, Catherine O’Hara). And now INSTANT: here’s a lovely story in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national paper of record. Pleasant interview, a reporter named Kate Taylor who took time to double-check the complex bits […]
Nice post today about Mikael Kennedy, whose Polaroid photography accompanies T.C. Boyle’s short story in this week’s New Yorker. He’s got some nice things to say about the instant photo as an object: “The photograph is present in the moment in which is was taken, we held that image in our hands, the dirt from […]
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