Posts by: bonanos
Just back from a visit with Eelco Wolf, a longtime Polaroid marketing executive who later served as head of the Magnum photo agency. He’s got a photo on his desk that made me laugh and gasp, all at once, when I saw it. Here’s a cameraphone snap:
There’s a mystery here, though: Who took this […]
Susan Mikula uses Polaroid film to document derelict industrial docks and other wrecked Americana, a subject I myself have a fondness for. But she does it in a way that’s entirely her own: using badly outdated Polaroid film found at garage sales and the like, embracing its messed-up color palette and unreliable […]
Just noticed a small detail of the interface on WordPress, the blogging platform that underlies Polaroidland. On the comments administration page (where I shovel out the spam and junk mail once a day) each comment has a spot for an avatar, the small photo or icon that appears next to the writer’s name. If you […]
Newsflash via Paul: the Instagram camera, with special instant-photo technology built right in, is on its way. Story here.
[Update, 3/15/2013: I thought this was a joke at the time, but it isn’t anymore.]
My depressing visit to Waltham last week resulted in photos of a half-demolished plant that once made Polaroid film. In the latest installment of curios from The Polaroid Newsletter, I’ve got photos of a factory that had a considerably happier turn in the 21st century. It’s the plant in Enschede, the Netherlands, that supplied Europe with […]
Forty years ago today, Edwin Land took the stage at Polaroid’s annual meeting to introduce SX-70. He had teased it for years, once briefly revealing an early model (prototype? block of wood?) in his coat pocket, then mentioning it in carefully doled-out bits of information. This week, though, it was time for the whole thing […]
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