Posts by: bonanos
While researching the book, I managed to obtain (don’t ask; it involved cash and a very long drive) a bound set of Polaroid’s in-house newspaper.
First called the Polaroid News Letter, then the Polaroid Newsletter, and later the Polaroid Update and briefly Viewpoint, the newspaper grew in polish […]
I spent more than a year writing this book, and the most intense push was in January 2011. That’s when I spent two weeks in Boston, mostly at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, where the Polaroid archives are kept. It was a tough trip: I was staying with my college roommate Mike and his wife, […]
You know the scenes, partway through Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where Richard Dreyfuss cannot stop seeing the Devil’s Tower shape wherever he goes? In his mashed potatoes, in his doodles, and eventually in the giant heap of dirt and rubbish that he constructs, maniacally, in his living room?
In the past […]
A whimsical, slightly odd item today. This is a reply card dated April 1974. It was tucked into the case of an old camera I bought.
A little goofy, to be sure, but it underscores two things about Polaroid that I have noticed over and over: (a) intelligence and sophistication in […]
One site you’ll hear about regularly here is New55. It’s written by Bob Crowley, a fellow in the high-end-microphone business who is attempting to reproduce (with tweaks) one of Polaroid’s most astonishing products, the special 4×5 film known as Type 55.
Background first: Type 55 (and its offshoots, Type 105 and 665) […]
The Impossible Project’s film does not cope well with cold climates, so hats off to David Gilkey, who used it to document wintry life aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway. The premodern-looking sepia images are uncannily appropriate for this setting, evoking as it does an era when travel (like photography) was far more difficult than it is […]
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