Posts by: bonanos
Well, they weren’t all great products. This is the Polaroid JoyCam, produced in 1999.
In 1995, Polaroid got a new chairman, only its fourth in 60-odd years. His name was Gary DiCamillo, and he was the first outsider to run the company, having come in from Black & […]
If you (like many Polaroid enthusiasts) know all about the magnificence that is the 20×24 camera, pardon this introduction to familiar territory. This will be the first of, I’m sure, many posts about it.
But if you don’t, prepare to be astonished. In 1976, Polaroid marked the introduction of its large-format (8-by-10-inch) peel-apart Polaroid […]
Just discovered a pair of fellow Pola-enthusiasts in Chris and Katie, proprietors of Fading Nostalgia. Their latest project is a book of Polaroid photographs taking along the Big Road: Route 66, highway of mid-century vacation dreamers turned open-air museum of […]
As digital photography becomes ubiquitous, analog photography becomes special, used at times when pixels just can’t do the job. And what’s more special than this loony-looking, wonderful project?
It’s a camera, now under construction by the photographer Dennis Manarchy, that shoots black-and-white negatives six feet high and four and a […]
Your host with his brother, in our family backyard in New Jersey, March 5, 1981. Photograph by Peter Bonanos.
I’m not sure, but I may still have the hat.
I’ve written before about the powerful resonances between Steve Jobs’s Apple and Edwin Land’s Polaroid. You can read that story here, in the New York Times. But shortly after that op-ed ran, I found two photos that just startled me.
Here’s Land at a shareholders’ meeting, probably the one at which he […]
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