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Passing on a plea from a researcher at Vassar College named Mary-Kay Lombino, who is assembling a Polaroid photography exhibit to open in the spring of 2013. She is looking for a copy of Polaroid’s 1972 annual report, each copy of which had an original SX-70 print (a photo of a red rose) mounted on […]
Yes, I am a huge Polaroid geek. And I am also a typography geek, so I need no excuse to offer up a little celebration of Polaroid’s longtime logo typeface: News Gothic.
It was created by the great type designer Morris Fuller Benton in 1908 for ATF, and its clean crisp lines were probably […]
Just back from a visit with Eelco Wolf, a longtime Polaroid marketing executive who later served as head of the Magnum photo agency. He’s got a photo on his desk that made me laugh and gasp, all at once, when I saw it. Here’s a cameraphone snap:
There’s a mystery here, though: Who took this […]
Forty years ago today, Edwin Land took the stage at Polaroid’s annual meeting to introduce SX-70. He had teased it for years, once briefly revealing an early model (prototype? block of wood?) in his coat pocket, then mentioning it in carefully doled-out bits of information. This week, though, it was time for the whole thing […]
We’ve already discussed the gold Polaroid camera … how about silver?
Ben High is an L.A. photographer and Pola-fan who, not long ago, moved to Iowa and set up shop as a jewelry-maker. As his Website says, “The first super fun thing I’ve been working on is, of course, related to photography. I […]
Sam Yanes, the longtime corporate-communications chief at Polaroid, reminded me yesterday that Christopher Plummer—who on Sunday finally got his Oscar, becoming the oldest actor ever to win one—did Polaroid commercials. Here he is, in 1980, teasing the Sonar SX-70:
This polished 30-second spot is somewhat similar to the introductory SX-70 ad that Laurence Olivier […]
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