Posts by: bonanos
I’ve posted before about visiting the building that housed Edwin Land’s lab (not to mention Alexander Graham Bell’s before him, and Kaplan Furniture in between). It’s on a narrow alleylike side street in Cambridge, running just two blocks between Albany and Main Streets, that’s called … well, that’s the point of this post. Is […]
It wasn’t all that uncommon, back in the heyday of instant photography, for people to shoot Polaroid photos of celebrities or star athletes as a medium for autographs. It’s a cute and nonthreatening idea: You get to chat with the star for a minute while the photo comes out, and you get a nice souvenir […]
Passing on a plea from a researcher at Vassar College named Mary-Kay Lombino, who is assembling a Polaroid photography exhibit to open in the spring of 2013. She is looking for a copy of Polaroid’s 1972 annual report, each copy of which had an original SX-70 print (a photo of a red rose) mounted on […]
Bill Warriner—filmmaker and photographer who spent a lot of years in Polaroid’s marketing department—e-mailed the other day to remark on the company’s original logo. This is the one that’s an abstraction of a pair of crossed polarizing filters, here seen on the corporate letterhead:
It’s the symbol that Paul Giambarba and then Bill […]
Got a few photos from our BookExpo America signing, shot by P.A.P.’s Russell Fernandez while I was snapping and scribbling. (Plus one extra photo, via Twitter, from the book blogger known as The Picky Girl.)
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This has nothing to do with Polaroid especially, and it will be old news to those of you who have your own blogs. It is, however, an interesting discovery I’ve made since Polaroidland opened for business at the beginning of this year: the sheer number of robot-generated spam comments that get posted to this site […]