Polaroid

Today’s New York Times carries a story about the demise of Polaroid accompanied by a slide show from the book ‘Found Polaroids’.

The article mentions a project from the early seventies when Polaroid launched the SX-70 and gave cameras plus a generous stock of film to a group of photographers and published the resulting images in a limited edition boxed set. Particularly striking shots were submitted by Christian Vogt, Pete Turner and Helmut Newton.

My contribution to the project – and the only in-camera montage in the series – is shown below.

This boxed set was not the only promotional project organised by polaroid. There was also a calendar called ‘Four Season’ in 1976 which features one of my images for the month of May.

The limited edition boxed set of twelve prints for the SX-70 called ’12 Instant Images – The SX-70 Experience’ was repeated for another Polaroid product, ’12 Instant Images – Type 105 Positive/Negative film’. Collectors should keep an eye out for it especially for the excellent contributions by Ansel Adams, Sarah Moon and Jeanloup Sieff. Each boxed set was limited to a production run of 1,000 and in both cases the first 50 sets were signed by all the photographers.

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