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In my research for this book, I’ve discovered that, if you look hard enough, almost anything eventually connects to Polaroid. Even Britney Spears.
The i-Zone was the last hit product introduced by the pre-bankruptcy Polaroid. It appeared in 1999, and made tiny integral-film photos, the size of a 35-mm. negative—that is, an inch by […]
I’ve posted about Elsa’s work before, but we’d never met till this weekend, when she was in New York. Long great conversation about lots of Polaroid people and Polaroid pictures and Polaroid memories. And even though I am self-conscious about taking pictures of real photographers, I did screw up my courage and made a […]
There’s a well-written homage to the SX-70 in the March issue of Smithsonian magazine. (I suspect we’ll see a few appreciations like this in the spring, because April marks the fortieth anniversary of the product introduction.) Online version here; good thread of comments about it at Boing Boing.
Since I started using an SX-70 camera, I’ve found one thing particularly frustrating: the flash situation. SX-70s were designed to use disposable Flashbars, which are long out of production. If you want to shoot indoors, you have three choices: (a) find vintage Flashbars, probably on eBay, for something like $10 apiece once you factor […]
I don’t know any Mandarin, and cannot tell you what is on Weilin Wang’s new site, located here. But I do know it’s a fan site devoted to instant photography, and (as I’ve written before) anything that keeps people shooting instant film is on the side of the angels. And you know what […]
Anyone run across the word “skeuomorph” lately? It describes a visual vestige—a traditional form that reappears in some other context where it’s meaningless. For example, if an object was once made of leather pieces stitched together but is now made of molded plastic on which designers have added fake molded stitches, those seams are skeuomorphs.
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