I grew up in the late 70s and early 80s. Furniture was made of bamboo and wicker, and appliances were colored in mustard and avacado. Photographs had that slightly acidy-musty oder at the moment they were ejected out of the camera. Memories of ever-subtracted light appeared right before my eyes. What an amazing contraption that Polaroid land camera was.
I’ve retired the instant cameras, but now I can obtain its imperfect vignet-slightly-bluish-tinting facsmile: Poladroid.
It even ejects your photo and gives you that click-whine sound.
Available for OSX and works in Leopard (soon for Windows).
A delightful short film that glosses over the fine details of photographic history–And gives us what we’ve all been waiting for in early 1970s–A leather bound instant camera. I wonder what would have happened if Polaroid paid as much attention to their digital cameras?
I took this photo 10 years ago before they did reconstruction in the court house. I’m inside the jail cell looking out at the end of the day–And boy does it smell in here. We’re right under the first court and there’s a stair passage to our left that winds out into the defendant’s box.
