Polaroid

Good article in the NY Times, Week In Review here by Michael Kimmelman. When Polaroid announced they were ceasing production of film I wasn't surprised but it did make me very sad. Like every other photographer, I've been dabbling with Polaroids for a long time in my personal and professional work. Nothing is quite like the magic of watching one of those images slowly emerge from the grayness. Of course image quality was never what you expected but it often weas so much more. I'm going to miss them. I traded one of my early hand made books to Robert Stevens for a SX-70 back in 1978. Here are a few: