Posts by: bonanos
Chris McVeigh, who makes Lego models of early Macintoshes and vintage telephones and other formerly high-tech objects, is making a kit for a you-know-what:
The best detail, though, is that it pushes out a little Lego photograph. Click the image below to see it do its stuff:
The tough thing is finding fresh […]
They’d hate me for that headline, but it turned out to be accurate.
To recap the story, quickly: In 1976, Polaroid’s only great competitor, Eastman Kodak, launched its own line of instant cameras. Kodak’s lawyers and engineers believed that they’d dodged and weaved their way around Polaroid’s patents; Polaroid emphatically disagreed, and a week later […]
“I forgot my pants, but I remembered my Polaroid camera.” If I had a dime for every time that’s happened to me…
This photo comes courtesy of Rihanna’s own Twitter feed. The camera, if anyone cares, is a Model 210 315.
Photographed by Leo Fuchs, 1958.
I think the camera is a Model 95B or something, but really who cares? Nobody’s looking at it.
Here’s one Polaroid product you couldn’t buy in a photo store: a little box made of maple, sized exactly to hold and sort SX-70 photos.
What’s special about this, you may ask? Well, it was not produced commercially. Someone (probably in the Polaroid shops) made up a few of them, especially for one […]
In the Guardian recently, a story about an art exhibition in Johannesburg:
Can the camera be racist? The question is explored in an exhibition that reflects on how Polaroid built an efficient tool for South Africa’s apartheid regime to photograph and police black people.
The London-based artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin spent a month in South Africa taking pictures on […]
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