20×24 Studio Director of Photography Jennifer Trausch gives the BBC a guided tour of the 20×24 camera and process.
Yearly Archives: 2010
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 […]
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” […]
In 2007 we were introduced to Dr. Florian Kaps by Jan Hnizdo, the owner of the 20×24 Studio in Prague, the Czech Republic. Doc, as he prefers to be known was very interested in preserving Polaroid films as it became apparent that Polaroid would be ceasing all film production by 2008. Our focus was of […]
Here are some of Jennifer Trausch’s personal recollections from her days on location in the South: “It was the hottest day of our trip and we were quite run down having driven some three thousand miles in the last couple weeks. The night before my assistant, Kim, and I had worked at a Zydeco dance […]