Yearly Archives: 2012

On May 30, 2012 Nafis Azad, the new Director of Photography at the 20×24 Studio worked with Robert Crowley of New55 to experiment with a prototype 8×10 instant negative. Using reagent and sheet components from 20×24 film, Azad and Crowley were successful in creating a fully developed negative and positive. More experiments are to follow […]

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Barbara Kasten began working with the 20×24 camera in 1981, when she was invited by Polaroid Corporation to come to the studio at 575 Technology Square in Cambridge, MA. Kasten had already been working with Polaroid’s 8×10 material and was well versed in the language of large format cameras. The work, at first minimal later […]

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20×24 Studio FAQs When did the 20×24 Project begin? 
1976, when Polaroid at Dr. Land’s direction built the first functioning prototype. This camera was used to take portraits at the 1976 Polaroid Shareholder’s meeting. Why did Polaroid build such a camera?   To demonstrate the quality of Polacolor II Film. Polaroid was about to release a professional […]

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