Posts by: bonanos
The Impossible Project—keepers of the SX70 flame—has had a tough go of it, and its name has, at times, seemed a little too on-the-nose. The company’s first films, released in mid-2010, were maddening to use, and some of them produced images that degraded to nothing within days. Every iteration of Impossible’s product gets a little […]
Andy Warhol was a compulsive Polaroid shooter, carrying a camera everywhere he went for many years. He was especially fond of a cheapo camera called the Big Shot, intended solely to make waist-up portraits from about four feet away. (You brought your subject into focus by making little half-steps toward and away from your subject, […]
When you’re researching Polaroidiana, the names of certain people bob up around the edges over and over, and one of them is John Wolbarst. Wolbarst was the editor of a trade magazine, National Photo Dealer, in the late 1940s, and then moved on to become managing editor of Modern Photography in 1950. In that time, […]
New to me (via Kat), and it’s pretty good! From a London band called Allo Darlin’:
You have to dig a lyricist who near-rhymes “stockpiling” and “expiring,” two words that loom large in film-photography circles these days.
Tim Mantoani has spent the last few years turning the 20×24 instant camera inward on itself, making photographs of photographers. Each subject posed with a print of the image that, more than any other, defines his or her career. Once Mantoani got his big Polaroid shots, the subjects inscribed every one with a […]
Polaroid photography has has always had a cultish following. Something about the mystery of making a photo right away, yourself, adds an intimacy that makes certain people (like me) wildly enthusiastic about this medium. I, however, have not gone as far as the folks below, who have permanently etched Polaroid iconography into their skin.
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