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New in the Photojojo Shop: The Polaroid Z340 Instant Digital Camera!
Get instant photos in your hand with an added bonus: you can save and edit them!
Crop, add filters or text, make custom borders and lots more.
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more great work from a rising star in Melbourne’s art scene.
(Source: snappedinthelight)
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I just finished my last few sheets of Polaroid 600 film. I’d been holding off making pictures with them for some time.
Yesterday I purchased a new camera the Polaroid 300. This camera currently has plenty of readily available film stock, particularly given that fuji make a film that fits as well. So I went ahead and finished the shots in the older polaroid camera. I photographed familiar things, things that over the years I’ve come to love seeing photographed and whose appearance delights me as a photograph.
As I expected, the pictures are full of the usual Polaroid flaws, which, despite Walter Benjamin’s and John Berger’s assertions make them unique and individual objects. Which in turn makes them priceless to me. Are they worthy of further contemplation and fetishisation, I don’t know. The only given is they will deteriorate over time, granted they may outlive me, but, the colours will shift and the blemishes will grow.
Who knows maybe they’ll hang on a gallery wall one day, because I don’t feel they can be truly appreciated any other way than as small objects, decaying, slowly.
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Revisiting an Analogue Past?
After having an encounter on mlkshk.com over some Nick Cave ephemera, I decided to go digging though my old analog notebooks that date back to my years as a University student from the early ’80s to the ’90s. Boy are there some gems in there!A couple of things struck me about the process.
Throughout the books are polaroids, made in a time when while expensive, still infinite in terms of having another go. Now of course, this is all history, making these rediscovered polaroids all the more poignant. To add fuel to the fire some of these polaroid photographs are showing sings of chemical deterioration. A wonderful metaphor for life and time.
Be prepared for more scans of these images as I work my way through these books.
The lesson in all this? Keep an analogue AND a digital journal, my analogue journal entries dwindled considerably around 2004, and stopping altogether in early 2008 for nearly 2 years. Why? I’m not sure? Rest assured, I have gone back just this year, to keeping both.
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This is one to watch, this artist.
(Source: snappedinthelight)
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(Source: store.polaroid.com)
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