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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: […]
It’s just a sentence or two, but I am grateful for it: My colleagues at New York magazine were nice enough to include INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID in the Fall Preview issue. We’re a prolific bunch of authors there this fall—three books total, with more to come next year—and the writeup about the […]
It’s not exactly Polaroid-related, though it certainly talks about instant photography of a different kind. Here’s a story I wrote for this week’s New York magazine about an odd little cultural phenomenon: cameraphone snaps of ominous thunderclouds overhead, zinging their way around the Internet every time a storm threatens.
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 […]
Anyone run across the word “skeuomorph” lately? It describes a visual vestige—a traditional form that reappears in some other context where it’s meaningless. For example, if an object was once made of leather pieces stitched together but is now made of molded plastic on which designers have added fake molded stitches, those seams are skeuomorphs.
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Lots of thoughts about this, of course. (Polaroid people lived through it, twice, and it was awful. I hope Kodak’s pensioners come out of this better than Polaroid’s did.) Lots of coverage, as you’d expect, in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Kodak’s hometown paper.
Just one statistic: Kodak at its peak, circa 1985, […]
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