Posts by: bonanos
From Library Journal: not the biggest audience in the world, but a solid trade publication, and god knows I have nothing but good things to say about career librarians. (No link to the review itself available; it’s subscription-only, like most trade pubs.) Reviewer Susan Hurst calls INSTANT “a quick and interesting read,” adding that […]
Guessing it’s from the late nineties or early aughts.
The camera is an SLR 690, the last really great camera Polaroid made, produced principally for the Japanese market.
The polymath Yalie actor-artist established his Pola-cred with a little show at the Impossible Project earlier this year. He’s gone on to a bigger stage now, with a line of T-shirts produced by the denim designers 7 For All Mankind that feature his Polaroid work. And he’s pretty good! I like ’em. (Not sure I […]
A few weeks back, on July 1, we here in Polaroidland posted about the Impossible Project’s reintroduction of 8×10 instant film. Well, some other newsgathering organization over on Eighth Avenue has finally got around to this huge breaking story, a mere seven weeks after we did. Now you know who’s the best […]
We’ve talked plenty over here about the New55 Project, Bob Crowley’s extremely promising attempt to reintroduce, and improve upon, Polaroid’s Type 55 positive/negative instant film. But I was floored to see (via the 20×24 Studio) this set of photos, for which a Flickr user named julsdylan has made his (or her?) own […]
The guy behind her is M. Ward, Deschanel’s musical partner in the band She & Him.
As for the camera, it appears to be an SLR 680, Polaroid’s flagship integral-film model from the early eighties, or possibly its nearly identical successor the 690. The portrait itself looks to have been shot on 35-mm. […]
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