SavePolaroid.com in the News
"... a triumphant visual institution."
A quick post, and one of the best I have read, from a great designer on the deeper reaching affect the instant film medium has had on our culture, and what its loss symbolizes.
“The process of photography has seen so many changes in the past decade, that even the methods we use to describe the act have changed. When someone mimes you the act of taking your photo, chances are they don’t hold an imaginary box up to their eye anymore, they hold an imaginary box a foot away from their face, as if they are looking at a digital camera’s LCD screen.”
Read this post whole post, it sums up so many truths about the loss of this format and many others in a way that I had only barely contemplated. Thanks for the perspective Jason
Gone in Sixty Seconds
In February, Polaroid announced it would close its U.S. factories making instant film, a move that will likely leave our collection of Polaroid cameras—ah, the leather-sided SX-70, the kitschy Swinger, the bulky Captiva, the anime-cute Mio—stranded as functionless design objects on a shelf.
End of an Instant Era
Here’s a new Pola article in my local weekly… Got the front cover as well. Serves Napa, Sonoma, Marin counties…200,000 distribution. Not massive, but a nice piece.
Farewell Polaroid
In a world of digital cameras, why are some mourning the loss of Polaroid’s iconic instant picture film? Videojournalist Carolynne Hew talks to some Polaroid lovers who reflect on this once popular photographic innovation as it fades into history…
Photo Finish
Traditionally, the role of those in the creative and cultural fringes is to lead: embracing unusual ideas, modes of expression and even products that gradually catch on with the mainstream and the masses…
A Heartfelt, YouTube-Based Wake for Polaroid Instant Photography
I greeted today’s news with an instinctive combination of shock, grief, and indignant fury: Polaroid has announced it’s ceasing production of its instant film, which will become unavailable after 2009…
Polaroid Technology Fades Out
When Polaroid users pulled a picture out of their cameras, an image would slowly appear before their eyes. Now, like the process in reverse, the image of the Polaroid instant camera — dimming for years — has finally gone black…
