2009-12-14
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Time Magazine’s cover, Jun 26, 1972: Edwin Land of Polaroid with an SX-70.
Inside: a letter from the publisher; Polaroid’s big gamble on small cameras; The most basic form of creativity.
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Dr Land’s Latest Bit Of Magic: a Life article introducing the SX-70, Oct 27, 1972. I could quite happily post most of the pages of this article, but why don’t you go over to the Google Books site and just read the whole thing?
2009-11-24
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Polaroid Story
1963, Fritz Goro
There’s a lot more at bestoflife; it’s a shame this one’s not in colour, though.
2009-08-09
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Grant Hamilton’s trailer for Time Zero, his film about the last year of Polaroid instant film.
2009-06-30
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end of the year addendum to “end of an era” | Mrs. Deane:
In the British Journal of Photography of 18 June 1907, a photographer by the name of Nelson King Cherrill published his sketches for a proto-SX-70
I assume this is a modern redrawing of the plans, because it looks incredibly clean, especially when compared to the (badly reproced?) SX-70 patent image:
(via)
2009-06-16
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I never need to take another photo of a cow again ever in my life. (via REDBULLHEAD)
2009-05-25
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The developers of Camerabag on Twitter. Hey, Polaroid, here’s an idea: if you want to make money of your “intellectual property”, how about letting people take pictures that look like Polaroids by using INSTANT FILM that you put in an INSTANT CAMERA? I reckon you could sell them for quite the profit! Oh, but wait…
Bah humbug.
2008-05-19
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From the Unsaleable shop, this might as well be called the Overpriced Hipster Edition. Nice photo of a lorry though, isn’t it?
