Posts by: bonanos
Happy little American, dipping toes in the park fountain, on the Fourth of July.
A few snapshots from last night’s party at Kings County Distillery, a startup co-owned by my New York magazine colleague David Haskell. It’s headquartered in a great-looking turn-of-the-century building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the KCD Website notes that, having opened in 2010, it’s New York City’s oldest continuously operated distilling operation. […]
In 1964, Polaroid commissioned the eminent Lowell Thomas—then in his latter days as an NBC News radio correspondent—to narrate a film that stumped for the company and taught dealers how to sell its products. It’s a strange thing, by today’s standards: You’d never see a journalist doing this anymore, certainly not one so prominent, because […]
Polaroid rolled out a new camera this week, a neat little pocketable thing called the Z2300. Idea is to take a midlevel point-and-shoot and incorporate the small Zink printer, allowing you to make a 2×3 print of your digital photo on the spot. (I’ve been joking that it should be called the TwoStep, […]
When The Impossible Project got started, its focus was on reviving standard-issue integral film for consumer cameras. That was the purpose of the machinery in the Enschede plant, and that was, of course, the stuff most photographers were interested in. The professional-format Polaroid film had been made in Waltham, and the machines that produced […]
This is a fun item: the Polaroid Big Shot, produced from 1971 to 1973. It’s one of the cheapest cameras Polaroid ever sold (setting aside some junk it produced during the bad years at the end), one of the strangest-looking, and arguably among the most fun. Plastic lens, socket and diffuser for Magicubes, and […]
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