Posts by: bonanos
The earliest Polaroid cameras were, as Edwin Land once said, “grand machines for a grand purpose.” The original Model 95 weighed more than four pounds, mostly of brass and steel. (I suspect that the reason you still see a lot of them at yard sales and on eBay is that people don’t like to throw […]
A successful day at BookExpo America! I am extremely happy to report that we had a great turnout at Princeton Architectural Press’s booth, enough that we ran out of books while people were still waiting in line. I kept shooting photos of visitors and passing them out, and I hope nobody went home too disappointed. […]
B&N has the book for preorder now, too. New title hasn’t wormed its way into their database quite yet, but the updated cover has. I’ll put a buy-it-now bug on the right side of this page shortly, right next to Amazon’s, once I have the code set up.
Nylon magazine: C’mon, dudes. You’re supposed to be knowing about art and design and photography. You are retro-cool enough to create a standing blog feature called the Nylon Party Polaroid. I even understand that shooting real instant film comes with its own problems, and that you’re just as soon splice a digital image onto the […]
Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film, Grant Hamilton’s documentary about the end of Polaroid and the start of Impossible, made its debut a couple of weeks ago in Boston. I couldn’t make it there—too much late scrambling on my own Pola-project in those weeks, and the travel budget is exhausted anyway—but […]
Friends, colleagues, book-publishing folk: Next week I’ll be at Book Expo America, shooting pictures and talking Polaroid. Come find me at Princeton Architectural Press’s booth, No. 4022, on Wednesday at 2 p.m.; I will also floating around the show before and after that, too. You should be able to spot me easily enough: old […]
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