Posts by: bonanos
We’ve already discussed the gold Polaroid camera … how about silver?
Ben High is an L.A. photographer and Pola-fan who, not long ago, moved to Iowa and set up shop as a jewelry-maker. As his Website says, “The first super fun thing I’ve been working on is, of course, related to photography. I […]
The New York Times’s Lens blog, devoted to photography and film and other visual media, is today featuring the work of Jem Cohen, a moviemaker who has also been wielding a Polaroid camera in New York City for the past three decades. He specializes in distant, somewhat mysterious images of urban decay […]
Most Polaroid freaks know about Dr. Florian Kaps, a.k.a. “Doc,” who is the guy more than any other who kept SX-70 and 600 film from disappearing forever. But there’s another Doc who figures in Polaroid’s history (and I don’t mean Dr. Land, whose only widely used nickname, as far as I know, was “Din”).
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Galley proofs are in! And so begins the hustle for media coverage. It’s weird to see this from the other side: I’m usually the magazine editor saying no. I hope it doesn’t turn me soft.
Sharp-eyed readers—and there have to be a few of you, among the MILLIONS and MILLIONS of readers of this blog—may note a tweak up above. We have simplified the book’s subtitle. No more “A Cultural History of Polaroid,” which was a little tweedy for even me; henceforth it’s “The Story of Polaroid,” which is faster-sounding […]
One of Polaroid’s more memorable products of the seventies was the Face Place—the photo booth, with seat and curtain, many of us remember from trips to the mall. (Plenty of them still exist, though the analog ones are getting hard to find.)
A tech entrepreneur has taken that idea and compacted it into a little […]
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