Posts by: bonanos
Kind of, anyhow. It was just around Christmas 1946, and Edwin Land’s company—coming down from a huge boom in war work, and shrinking from over 1200 employees to about 250—had spent nearly three years secretly working on a new project. Land was essentially betting the farm on this new thing, with confidence but no guarantee […]
No, really. Ayn Rand (selfishness enthusiast, anti- collectivist, Alan Greenspan mentor) thought Edwin Land (defender of PBS, coiner of the phrase “the bottom line is in heaven”) was as great as they come.
In a 1963 magazine article called “The Money-Making Personality,” Rand proposed a distinction between people who were real creators of money from […]
On a gray morning about two weeks ago, Seventh Avenue and 14th Street.
Shot with a Polaroid Model 180 camera on FP-100C film, fortified with a cortado.
I’ve often thought, while working on this book, that there ought to be a Polaroid documentary. Turns out that Grant Hamilton, an Iowa City photographer and Pola-enthusiast, thought the same thing. His film focuses on the last year of Polaroid’s film production and the creation of the Impossible Project. Time Zero: The Last Year […]
In the heap of broken glass that is the Kodak bankruptcy, here’s one particularly sharp shard: Kodak is getting out of the camera-making business, which it entered in 1888.
It’s not a surprise; even back in the glory days, Kodak (and Polaroid too) made most of their money on film, and cameras were secondary. […]
Yes, there was a 24-karat-gold-plated SX-70.
A little silly, but if you’re into Polaroid, completely within bounds; this is a cult object, and cults like their icons precious. (I wouldn’t put it past Apple to produce a platinum iPad someday, either.) The Land List calls it a “(very) limited edition,” though how limited I don’t […]
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