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Big Shots at the Golden Globes

By On 14 January 2013 · 1 Comment

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: […]

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Gina Gershon, Big Shot

By On 23 July 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Polaroid Big Shot—Andy Warhol’s portrait camera of choice in the early seventies—has been discussed here before. Well, for a story this week, my visual-department colleagues at New York magazine (without any influence from me, by the way) arranged for photographer Lucas Michael to shoot Gina Gershon in the manner of Andy, with a […]

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Instant Artifact: The Big Shot

By On 30 June 2012 · 4 Comments

This is a fun item: the Polaroid Big Shot, produced from 1971 to 1973. It’s one of the cheapest cameras Polaroid ever sold (setting aside some junk it produced during the bad years at the end), one of the strangest-looking, and arguably among the most fun. Plastic lens, socket and diffuser for Magicubes, and […]

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Andy Goes to Berkeley

By On 31 January 2012 · Leave a Comment

Andy Warhol was a compulsive Polaroid shooter, carrying a camera everywhere he went for many years. He was especially fond of a cheapo camera called the Big Shot, intended solely to make waist-up portraits from about four feet away. (You brought your subject into focus by making little half-steps toward and away from your subject, […]

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