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No, that headline is not about Polavision. It’s about a new music video by Walker Lukens, a musician whose new album, Devoted, will be released in April. Nearly the whole video for “Dear Someone” (which premiered on Mashable this week) consists of stop-motion animation made with Polaroid photos of the singer, shot […]
Edwin Land’s published writing—precise, technically impeccable, and scientifically uncompromised—was the way he wished to be remembered, and two years after his death, his colleague Mary McCann collected it all into a pair of hardbound volumes. Published by the Science for Imaging & Technology in 1993, Edwin H. Land’s Essays never quite went out of print […]
Been a busy week, and I am late reporting on Tuesday’s announcement from The Impossible Project: a new product, financed through Kickstarter. It’s part-and-parcel with Impossible’s new camera, which has been in the works for some time, and thus far takes the form of (more or less) the bottom half of an SX-70/600-style camera: […]
Recently, my friends at The Impossible Project arranged to offer a special slipcased edition of INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID. The book is paired with a second smaller volume, Faces of Polaroid, for which I ran around New England photographing the people who, a generation ago, made this technology. (The photos were shot […]
A few weeks back, on July 1, we here in Polaroidland posted about the Impossible Project’s reintroduction of 8×10 instant film. Well, some other newsgathering organization over on Eighth Avenue has finally got around to this huge breaking story, a mere seven weeks after we did. Now you know who’s the best […]
In 1969, when Edwin Land’s team first produced a photo that could develop out in daylight, he presented his team with a celebratory cake reading “From darkness there shall come light.” The epigraph sounded Biblical, or maybe Shakespearean, but Land (who, let’s face it, thought a lot of himself) had just made it up. The […]
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