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The 20×24 Polaroid cameras have photographed three presidents and a scattering of vice-presidents and first and second ladies, and a few days ago Chuck Close added another to the credits list: Barack Obama sat down before the lens, at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington. Close plans to use them (as he often does) as […]
Cindy Sherman is the photography world’s talking point of the moment, owing mostly to the current MoMA retrospective of her unique and astonishing work. As far as I know she’s never been much of a Polaroid fancier herself, but a few days ago, she posed for a great instant portrait, shot by Chuck Close on […]
Elsa Dorfman is a Cambridge photographer who works almost exclusively with the 20×24, and has done so since 1980. She does a steady business taking quirky family portraits, as well a variety of other work (here’s a gallery of her many portraits of Allen Ginsberg). Lots on her Website here, including a film […]
Tim Mantoani has spent the last few years turning the 20×24 instant camera inward on itself, making photographs of photographers. Each subject posed with a print of the image that, more than any other, defines his or her career. Once Mantoani got his big Polaroid shots, the subjects inscribed every one with a […]
If you (like many Polaroid enthusiasts) know all about the magnificence that is the 20×24 camera, pardon this introduction to familiar territory. This will be the first of, I’m sure, many posts about it.
But if you don’t, prepare to be astonished. In 1976, Polaroid marked the introduction of its large-format (8-by-10-inch) peel-apart Polaroid […]
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