For a generation, the Polaroid camera gave near-instant pleasure to millions of users around the world,but when digital photography came along in the 1990s – with instant images and the ability to edit and delete pictures before they see the light of day – Polaroid was doomed, its iconic white-framed snaps apparently defunct. When Polaroid announced last February that it would stop production of its instant film, it seemed the much-loved camera was gone forever.
Why save Polaroid Film?!
It is extremely difficult to come to any sort of consensus about this question – “Why Save Polaroid Film?” In fact, there are as many reasons to save Polaroid film as there are people who use it.
"Polaroid film and the process of making photographs with Polaroid film is inherently imperfect. These imperfections make every Polaroid a unique piece, never to be replicated exactly."...by dave
"..watching a Polaroid picture develop is like watching a memory form right before your eyes. It appears out of a hazy nothingness and slowly forms into a beautiful but often imperfect image. A picture that mirrors the imperfections of life and memory."...by Sean
"I must confess, I am in love with the square. As in square format photography. And no other camera has promulgated the square as widely or as faithfully as the Polaroid SX-70/680 series. I cannot imagine framing an image any other way. Losing these cameras from my arsenal reduces, in my eyes, my artistic choices."...by Tod
"..why should those of us who shoot instant film have to give that up? I don’t want my instant cameras to turn into nothing but collector’s items! Before there was digital, there was Polaroid. Let’s keep instant film alive."...by Shelly
"Polaroid is personal. It happens in your body and your hands, from eye to machine to finger, needing no external interference, no other intelligence. Polaroid is unique. There will never be another image exactly like the one that just shot out of your camera and that developed as you watched. There are no reprints, only reproductions. This one is all you get; good or bad, perfect or (most likely) not. Like so many things in life, it is what you make of it."...by Cait
What can you do?!
What can you do?!
visit www.savepolaroid.com
Support the Impossible Project – The Impossible Project aims to reintroduce integral film for Polaroid cameras by 2010. They need your support.Visit The Impossible Project.
1 comments:
It has become something of a cultural icon.It's unique and it's been there for the ppl of that generation like google is today: convenient.
The one thing that comes to my mind is the opening scene of memento when I think of polaroid.
Somebody save it
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