We have here an ordinary pack of 600 film, expired October 1998. Probably dried up, with a dead battery too; unlikely to produce photos (though I’ll try it).
But it’s the back of the box that’s interesting. It displays an advertisement for a product known as the Polaroid PhotoPad, a little digital scanner […]
Exciting, long-awaited news: Grant Hamilton’s new Polaroid-and-Impossible documentary is getting its first big public screening. Time Zero will be publicly shown on April 28, in Somerville, Massachusetts, as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston. (It’s at the Somerville Theatre at 1 p.m., if you’re ready to jump in your car.) It has its […]
Eastman Kodak posted this item from the archives a couple of years ago, but I hadn’t discovered it till now. It’s a test of Kodachrome movie film, from 1922. Color movies, in near-perfect condition, made four years after the end of the First World War. Though it’s not the earliest color movie film in […]
Because of its size, the 20×24 Polaroid camera tends to do mostly studio work. There are exceptions—Jennifer Trausch has taken it out in the field now and then, as have others—but those shoots are comparatively rare.
And then there’s the work of Joachim Knill, a Swiss-born photographer who built his own field […]
A group of semi-anonymous photographers, shooting 4×5 chromes for the Office of War Information, made some of the most incredible portraits of ordinary Americans that I’ve ever seen. One in particular, named Alfred Palmer, deserves his own mini-retrospective. Click for full-size images; they have to be seen big to be appreciated.
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Self-explanatory slideshow on British Vogue’s Website here, by the casting director Douglas Perret. These are a few years old, and several of the models have since added “super-” to their job descriptions. (He’s publishing a book of these photos called Wild Things.) Looks like Spectra film rather than Instax.
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