Film. Extremely sad news, as I love Polaroid instant cameras and the photographs they produce.
When reading the September issue of Dazed & Confused (No. 65) I came across an article titled Polaroid Nation by Sarah Fakray. It explores the death of the Polaroid film due to the introduction of Digital photography, and just how loved the classic style of photography still is.
It also includes a collection of Polaroids, by famous photographers, that they can't live without.
Well worth a read.
An online version and selection fo these images is available here: www.dazeddigital.com/projects/polaroid-nation/Default.aspx
Something really interesting the article mentions is about a photographer called Jamie Livingston. Livingston took a photograph every day for 18 years until his 41st birthday in 1997 when he died of cancer. And you can view them all on the website:
http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/
And if you're born after 1979 you can easily view the photograph taken on your birthday.
This one was taken on mine (1/4/1988). Why not look up yours?
2 comments:
A photographer called Dash Snow focuses on polariod shots, his work is amazing, I suggest you check him out!
I read about Jamie Livingstone in the Guardian, i think it's such an interesting way of remembering things that happened or didn't happen each day. It makes me wants to take a photo, do a drawing or write something down everyday so that i can look back on it when i am older.
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