Lady Gaga, new P7 reagent, Chuck Close and AOL, hear all the latest news in John Reuter’s interview with Inside Analog Photo’s Scott Sheppard.
Pop sensation Lady Gaga, who recently signed a deal with Polaroid to be a Creative Director for some new product lines, visited the MIT Museum in Cambridge Massachusetts on June 3oth. Polaroid recently donated items from the corporate archive to MIT which includes the prototype 20×24 Camera from 1976. Lady Gaga, who reveres analog instant photography immediately fell in love with the 235 pound camera and jumped right in to create a series of over twenty self portraits. She chose our classic Polapan 400 20×24 film for this series. Among the props supplied by the MIT Museum were Dr. Land’s 50 year old desk chair and pairs of the original Polaroid 3D glasses from the 1950s.
Jennifer Trausch, Lady Gaga, and John Reuter
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20×24 Studio Director of Photography Jennifer Trausch gives the BBC a guided tour of the 20×24 camera and process.
Jennifer Trausch on BBC
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It has been nearly a year since we took possession of the 20×24 Film production equipment and inventory from Polaroid. Over the summer of 2009 we found facilities to house the large reagent mixing reactor and the pod making machine and film spooler. This is our facility at Belding Mill, in Putnam, CT where we house some film inventory, test batch chemistry and mixing equipment and the Pod Machine itself, known as MEGA #4 when it was one of 22 pod machines in Polaroid’s Waltham factory. With great care it was moved from a Polaroid warehouse last summer and installed, rewired and hooked up to nitrogen and compressed air to make it operational once more. On this day pictured we ran over 600 Polacolor ER pods for 20×24 film.
Belding Mill 20x24 Polaroid Facility, Putnam, CT
Marc Souffrant commands the Pod Machine
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Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Chinese Ink Painting
An installation from A Chinese Wunderkammer
Snite Museum of Art
Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery
March 14 to April 25, 2010
These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu’s larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer. Wunderkammer were 17th- and 18th-century European “wonder rooms” or “cabinets of curiosity”––some of the earliest known “museums”––which contained specimens reflecting the natural world, anthropology, archaeology, relics, and art. The late Qing emperor Qianlong, known for his passion for the arts, also pursued this type of collecting.
In Chiu’s case, she collects, by photography, objects representing the material culture of traditional China: bonsai, scholar’s rocks, flowers, artworks depicting the animal zodiac, and, here, goldfish. Her choice of subjects makes reference to historical Chinese culture; her graphic photographic images of goldfish suggest the brushstrokes of traditional Chinese ink painting and the sweeping abstract shapes of Chinese writing.
Because the images were taken with a rare 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera—for which film is no longer manufactured––the exhibition is also an elegy to the era of Polaroid cameras and film. See the review in the South Bend Tribune.
In Chiu’s case, she collects, by photography, objects representing the material culture of traditional China: bonsai, scholar’s rocks, flowers, artworks depicting the animal zodiac, and, here, goldfish. Her choice of subjects makes reference to historical Chinese culture; her graphic photographic images of goldfish suggest the brushstrokes of traditional Chinese ink painting and the sweeping abstract shapes of Chinese writing.
Because the images were taken with a rare 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera—for which film is no longer manufactured––the exhibition is also an elegy to the era of Polaroid cameras and film. See the review in the South Bend Tribune.
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