Here are 2 samples from my early and brief days as a fashion photographer. Polaroid was testing this new “arty” Polapan instant developing B&W slide film. It had a shiny metallic [...]
Here is the plaque that stands about where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. the next step was the first long distance telephone call. It went to a building that was once a Polaroid [...]
Here’s “Selfie with Two Beards” from 1982, 2009 and 2015. It was originally shot on 20 x 24″ Polaroid film at the original Polaroid Studios in Cambridge MA: How did he do [...]
Here is the same Boston photographer holding a 20″ x 24″ Polaroid of himself after 25 years of fading. The real guy seems more faded than the Polaroid. The photo was shot by John [...]
I shot PR and product photography for the Polaroid Corporation in the 1990’s. You can see some of them by following the “Polaroid” tag. Here’s a shot from 1995 of the lab [...]
For those nostalgic former Polaroid employees lurking, I dug up some photos (circa 1986) of a plant tour I took of the camera manufacturing plant in Norwood. These are mostly people testing the [...]
By now you’ve probably all seen photos taken by the 20 by 24″ Polaroid camera. You might also have gotten close enough to an original to see the unbelievable detail that they display. [...]
Polaroid built a 40″ x 80″ “instant” camera which was basically a room with a hole in it for a lens and a large vacuum easel, inside the room, on the other side of the [...]
Not theirs, but mine. With all the talk about the death of the company, the film and the folks at The Impossible Project trying to reinvent the film, I went into my deep archives for [...]