Posts by: bonanos
It’s just a sentence or two, but I am grateful for it: My colleagues at New York magazine were nice enough to include INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID in the Fall Preview issue. We’re a prolific bunch of authors there this fall—three books total, with more to come next year—and the writeup about the […]
Screen-grabbed from P.T. Anderson’s Boogie Nights, his great film about a kid making his way in the California porn business of the seventies. Polaroid cameras bob up a few times in the movie, because they’re so distinctively of-the-era and, I think, because they fit so nicely with the material. (Private dirty pictures were, let’s face […]
Or ‘RoidWeek 2012, as it somewhat unfortunately has come to be called. It rolls around each August, and you’re meant to post a maximum of two instant photos a day to the designated Flickr group, which is here. (There’s a Facebook page too.) Impossible gets into the spirit, running a little follow-up […]
It’s not exactly Polaroid-related, though it certainly talks about instant photography of a different kind. Here’s a story I wrote for this week’s New York magazine about an odd little cultural phenomenon: cameraphone snaps of ominous thunderclouds overhead, zinging their way around the Internet every time a storm threatens.
I joke with my wife that, once you’re immersed as deeply as I am, everything leads back to Polaroid. And how on earth does the Republicans’ new vice-presidential candidate connect to the inventor of instant film?
Paul Ryan is, of course, a fierce small-government-lower-taxes advocate, backed and promoted by groups like Grover Norquist’s
Andrew Miller is the artist behind a project called “Brand Spirit.” He chose 100 consumer objects, from a Remington bullet to a Barbie doll, and painted out their surfaces in pale gray, removing all markings and logos. Then he photographed them against a matching background, so barely anything but their basic form registers. All 100 […]
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