Posts by: bonanos
A few weeks ago at the BBC’s studios in New York, I recorded an interview that a producer cut together with video and still pictures into a nice little short film. It aired this evening on the PBS daily digest of that network’s programming, and in rotation on the World News network. I […]
Frank Sinatra inspects an instant picture; Peter Lawford, Marilyn Monroe, and Mai “Mrs. Sammy Davis Jr.” Britt look on. Whoa. (Rollfilm camera with flash is on the table, as is its box; looks like a Model 80A. As if that’s the interesting part of this photo.)
It’s from a 2010 […]
New York magazine’s Culture Pages, where I am an editor, is a regular host to another crazed Polaroid enthusiast. For last week’s issue, Lucas Michael used his Polaroid Big Shot to photograph Benjamin Walker, co-star of Broadway’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Then, this past Sunday night, he took on a high-wire assignment: […]
I’ve written before about Mary Moorman’s Polaroid picture of the Kennedy assassination, and today Time’s Harry McCracken—a man who, judging by this post from a couple of years back, has the Polaroid bug almost as seriously as I do—posted about a small discovery he made on a trip to Oregon. In an antiques shop, he […]
A few people (including Fast Company’s Co.Create blogger Paula Bernstein and Yahoo! Finance’s Daily Ticker Webcast) have been asking me what I think of Polaroid’s latest initiative. The Polaroid Fotobar is a retail space devoted to photo printing: a shop where you can print out photos and take them home, […]
At 7 p.m., I’m going to be talking about Polaroid at Pacific Standard, a nifty Brooklyn bar that hosts lots of books-related events. It’ll be fun: It’s the final reading in a series run by the gentlemen of Dadwagon, a dadblogging site (sorry about that word, but it works) that […]
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