Posts by: bonanos
A few days ago, I posted this awesome photo of Fidel Castro con Polaroid, asking if anyone could identify it. (Eelco Wolf, a former Polaroid executive, has been trying to ID the source.)
Well: Marion Birringer, from the Impossible Project’s European offices, tweeted the photo for me, and one of her followers spotted a […]
We’ve already posted about an SX-70 necklace, and now here’s a 600-style camera, with the flip-up flash—and it actually flips up, on a little hinge. Offered at $47.99 by Ark Clothes, a company (based in Thailand) that sells retro clothes and accessories. Unfortunately, it’s a little late for Mother’s Day, but I’m […]
The Art Newspaper is reporting on a big crowdsourcing program that’s getting underway to document the history of Polaroid photography. The writeup is a little vague and tangled (says your obsessive editor, who can’t read anything without a pencil in hand), but it sounds like the plan is to ask artists who’ve shot Polaroid […]
Official word from Fujifilm’s rep: The large-format instant film (4×5 size) is out of production. The color (FP-100C45) is sold out at the wholesale level, and b/w (FP-3000B45) is nearly so. The much more widely used 3×4 size is selling well, and production continues.
This is a major bummer, since Fuji was the last producer […]
Those folks were kidding a couple of weeks ago, but a design outfit called ADR Studio has done a little design concept for an actual camera that looks just like the Polaroid-striped Instagram icon—and prints on the spot. With a white tab at the bottom of the photo, no less.
It’s […]
It’s Edwin Land’s 103rd birthday, and here he is, in a couple of Polaroid portraits. The distance shot is outside the Osborn Street laboratories in Cambridge; as for the closeup, I’m not sure who the other guy is, but I really hope he doesn’t have that tie anymore.
The dates are educated guesses. I put […]
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