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Instant Celebrity: Kristen Bell

By bonanos On 12 September 2013 · Leave a Comment

You may know her from Veronica Mars (the TV show and the forthcoming movie) or House of Lies. Shot for Rolling Stone in 2006; amazingly, story’s not online, otherwise I’d link to it. This image, as the watermark indicates, comes from the fan site kristen-bell.org, by way of the instant-photography blog Phasmatis Apparatus.

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Instant Celebrity: Rihanna

By bonanos On 17 April 2013 · 1 Comment

“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.

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Instant Celebrity: Audrey Hepburn

By bonanos On 10 April 2013 · 2 Comments

Photographed by Leo Fuchs, 1958.

I think the camera is a Model 95B or something, but really who cares? Nobody’s looking at it.

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Instant Celebrity: Heath Ledger

By bonanos On 26 September 2012 · Leave a Comment

Heath Ledger, in an undated photograph from early in his short career. Camera’s a Model 195, but a modified one with (it looks like) a nonstandard shutter and a swapped rangefinder. It may be a lens off another camera that was swapped onto the Polaroid body.

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Instant Celebrity: Johnny Depp

By bonanos On 12 September 2012 · Leave a Comment

Post–21 Jump Street, pre–Captain Jack Sparrow. I’d guess mid-1990s (a.k.a. the Winona Years). With Spectra camera and hat from L.A.’s notorious Viper Room.

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Instant Celebrity: Zooey Deschanel

By bonanos On 22 August 2012 · Leave a Comment

The guy behind her is M. Ward, Deschanel’s musical partner in the band She & Him.

As for the camera, it appears to be an SLR 680, Polaroid’s flagship integral-film model from the early eighties, or possibly its nearly identical successor the 690. The portrait itself looks to have been shot on 35-mm. […]

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