Posts by: bonanos
Elsa Dorfman is a Cambridge photographer who works almost exclusively with the 20×24, and has done so since 1980. She does a steady business taking quirky family portraits, as well a variety of other work (here’s a gallery of her many portraits of Allen Ginsberg). Lots on her Website here, including a film […]
I must admit that, when I found out the other day that there’s another Polaroid book coming out this year—from the sister company of my own book’s publisher, no less—I briefly freaked out. Once I calmed down, I discovered that it is a very different project—a complement, not a competitor, to mine. (It even […]
A photographer named Heather Powazek Champ has just posted an excellent visual diary of Impossible‘s progress, from its first (somewhat frustrating) color film to its impressive new PX70. Click here to view.
Polaroid got its start in a few places—briefly an apartment in New York, then a couple of buildings in Cambridge and Connecticut—but it really got rolling in a former furniture factory near the MIT campus. The building at 2 Osborn Street was a dilapidated old industrial brick thing back then—Edwin Land once called it “wretched”–but […]
Just got tipped by my friend Bob to the existence of this: “Flashgun Freddie,” an episode of The Flintstones from 1962. Fred and Barney buy themselves a Polarock instant camera, and hijinx ensue.
Of course, I mostly enjoyed watching the camera work. First you aim and focus…
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Over at Forbes, Martin Sosnoff, a money manager who started watching Polaroid in 1961, explains here why APPL probably is not about to follow PRD down the drain, despite that provocative headline. All the same, he suggests that Apple ought to be paying a dividend, and that it needs to generally be paying more […]
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