Posts by: bonanos
Sorry the blog has been quiet for a few days. I was visiting the real Polaroidland.
We’re doing a special slipcased edition of the book, which will include a little extra volume of portraits of Polaroid people. So I was in Cambridge and its environs, snapping SX-70 photos on Impossible Project film. It was […]
Nick Bilton, the Times’s “Bits” blogger, has a nice long post up about the reasons big companies lose their ability to invent, and investigates the reasons Polaroid and Kodak didn’t go on to create Instagram. He leaves a few things out of the analysis–like the huge infrastructure investments the two companies had in film, […]
I have a little riff on the Instagram sale, the vintage-photo aesthetic, and the small-scale return of film photography in this week’s New York magazine, here.
We close out our Tom Lehrer Birthday Week extravaganza today with one more song. This one is from the 1977 Summer Sales Meeting, and requires a little background explanation. The OneStep was, as you probably remember, Polaroid’s little plastic-bodied camera, hugely popular and decorated with a rainbow stripe. The Handle was its competitor […]
As promised in Monday’s post, here’s another Tom Lehrer song. This one (or rather two, because there are once again long and short versions) was written for the 1977 Summer sales meeting, and it’s pretty self-explanatory, at least if you’re old enough to recognize the TV-show titles. The only cultural references that many will […]
A billion dollars. I’d like to point out here that Instagram has nine employees, plus its investors, who today are probably very happy people.
I have a bunch to say about this, which really does portend the future of amateur photography, and I’ll post links as the stories appear.
[Update, 4/15/12: Story in […]
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