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Today we inaugurate a new feature in Polaroidland: Every Wednesday, we’ll show a different star in a Polaroid moment. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Rolling Stones this month, we’ll start out with Mr. Mick Jagger. (Photo, from September 1968, by Baron Wolman. Buy a print here.)
The Polaroid Big Shot—Andy Warhol’s portrait camera of choice in the early seventies—has been discussed here before. Well, for a story this week, my visual-department colleagues at New York magazine (without any influence from me, by the way) arranged for photographer Lucas Michael to shoot Gina Gershon in the manner of Andy, with a […]
It was in Berlin last week. (“Yeah, it was pretty obscure. You probably don’t know about it.”)
And what did Yahoo! News use to signify the whole thing? I think you, as a Polaroidland visitor, can probably guess.
Neil Ulevich was a photographer working for the AP in Vietnam from 1972 to 1975. He brought a pack-film Polaroid camera with him, and says that in the press corps, “nobody took [it] seriously.” All the same, as a side project, he routinely asked his colleagues—from celebrated journalists to interpreters to the office cleaning lady—to […]
That’s right, the Cocoagraph: a chocolate bar printed with a color photo, complete with white Polaroid frame. More about the company here. That’s a Model 110A camera in the photo at left, so I get the sense that these people (or their photographer) are actual Polaroid enthusiasts.
The thing for me to do […]
By 2000, I think it’s fair to say, the dream was over at Polaroid. The debt load was getting bigger and the digital-photo tidal wave that had been mounting for twenty years was cresting. In the absence of a great new idea coming out of the labs, Polaroid’s chairman and CEO, Gary DiCamillo, pursued a […]
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