Posts by: bonanos
It’s Tom Lehrer’s 84th birthday! To celebrate the master satirist of his generation, we in Polaroidland are posting three Lehrer songs, last performed more than three decades ago and never before seen outside Polaroid circles.
Background first. For those of you who don’t know of him: In the early fifties, Tom Lehrer was […]
Cindy Sherman is the photography world’s talking point of the moment, owing mostly to the current MoMA retrospective of her unique and astonishing work. As far as I know she’s never been much of a Polaroid fancier herself, but a few days ago, she posed for a great instant portrait, shot by Chuck Close on […]
The book’s page is up on Amazon. No cover yet, No synopsis yet; the page is rudimentary, and will be fleshed out later. But it has an ISBN, and the page appears to have a preorder button, which means Someone Can Theoretically Buy It.
Buy-it-here link will be added to Polaroidland in […]
No, really. Photo is Time Inc. property, so fair-use law means I have to keep it tiny here, but click here to see it in all its glory. It’s from a slideshow of 1965 photographs by Bill Ray, whose work you’ll see in my book as well.
Just ran across this tour, on the Atlantic’s tech blog, of Instagram’s small office in San Francisco. (Instagram, for the holdouts among you, is a smartphone app that lets you share photos, and also treat them with digital filters so they look somewhat like analog snapshots.) This company’s sharing-and-socializing approach to photography is often […]
Yet another Polaroid song, this one by Ted Leo, the brainy postpunk rocker who came to prominence with his band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. My friend Sara has been telling me for years that I need to listen to him, and it just so happens that he has a song that syncs up […]
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