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Polaroid

5 May 2024

  • Prisoner Polaroids all untitled / no captions. These are Sean's favourites / 5 are exclusive

    ‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners

    In the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actually felt safer in prison

11 March 2021

  • Florian Kaps in An Impossible Project.

    An Impossible Project review – life after digital in forward-looking retro doc

    Florian Kaps – Vienna’s answer to Steve Jobs – enthuses over analogue hardware and makes a persuasive case for moving beyond an online existence

17 December 2020

  • detail of Sade, Polaroid by Maripol.

    My best shot
    Sade electrifies a New York party: Maripol's best photograph

    ‘The singer came to my loft for a party. She was quite a presence. I gave her those earrings. People always thought I was a stylist – but I was just stylish’

30 July 2020

  • Brigid Berlin, Untitled (Self-Portrait with Tit Prints I), ca. 1971-1973 4.2 x 3.3 in. Polaroid

    Brigid Berlin obituary

    Artist known for her Polaroid photography and collaborations with Andy Warhol in 1960s and 70s New York

16 September 2019

  • A detail from a polaroid picture called ‘Sussex. England, 1980s’ of Paul McCartney taken by Linda McCartney.

    The polaroids of Linda McCartney – in pictures

    A new book of Linda McCartney’s Polaroids offer a fascinating glimpse into her family life

22 June 2019

  • Butterfly, La Palma, November 1986; Kensington Motel, 1985; Austin Texas, 1979.

    The private Polaroids of a celebrated cinematographer

    Robby Müller, who shot for Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and more, was never without a camera

18 September 2018

  • It’s how you measure it … in controlled conditions to mix chemicals for the film.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Strictly analogue: Polaroid's past, present and future – a photo essay

    Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi tours the world’s last Polaroid film factory, in the Netherlands, the only remaining factory still making film for the much-loved instant cameras

12 October 2017

  • Valley of the Gods, Utah, 1977, by Wim Wenders.

    Wim Wenders on his Polaroids – and why photography is now over

    Vigils for John Lennon, road trips with Annie Leibovitz, portraits of Dennis Hopper … Wim Wenders took thousands of Polaroids while making his classic films. He shares the stories behind them

26 September 2017

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Why do millennials insist on living in the past?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    The revival of Polaroids is deserved on merit, but most of my generation’s obsessions are borrowed from the boomers. That’s no way to carve an identity, writes Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

19 March 2017

  • Tommy Stadlen

    Polaroid Swing aims to reboot brand and inspire new generation

    Silicon Valley startup to offer photographers equipment, exhibition space and possible commissions in new support programme

29 October 2016

  • A photograph from Florian Kaps’s Polaroid: The Magic Material

    Magic in an instant: the afterlife of Polaroid

  • p.133 Escher-style

    Polaroid moments: the art of instant images – in pictures

5 September 2016

  • The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

    First look review
    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography review – Errol Morris takes a charming snapshot

    A warm and hugely entertaining documentary about a woman whose work gained fame for utilising the Polaroid 20x24 camera

16 August 2016

  • Andrei Tarkovsky polaroid

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroid photographs to be auctioned

    Haunting images shot by Solaris director in Russia and Italy to be sold at Bonhams and could fetch up to £500,000

12 July 2016

  • Tommy Stadlen, co- founder of the Polaroid app, stands for a portrait in his office in San Francisco, California, on Monday, July 11, 2016. Gabrielle Lurie for The Guardian

    Watch out, Instagram: new Polaroid app brings a nostalgic classic to your phone

    Reverence for the original brand inspired two San Francisco-based Brits to bring back the magic with a modern twist: 3D moving images

28 December 2015

  • Family Polaroids for Shazia Mirza's opinion piece

    The gift I'll never forget
    A Polaroid camera transformed my relationship with my mother

    Shazia Mirza
    Mum had always nagged me about schoolwork and tests. But then she bought me an instant camera, and the whole picture changed

17 August 2015

  • Found polaroid.Untitled-1.jpg

    Who are the Polaroid people? One man's quest to solve 6,000 mysteries

    Kyler Zeleny has a strange obsession: collecting Polaroids of total strangers. Now, he’s taken his 6,000-strong hoard and put it online, inviting the public to name the mystery guests. So do you know any of these Polaroid people?

26 March 2015

  • Mike Brodie's new book, Tones of Dirt and Bone

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Riding the rails: Mike Brodie’s romantic Polaroids of freight-train life

  • Monica with arrow

    Born to run: portraits of American wanderers – in pictures

8 November 2014

  • Paris Hilton taking a Polaroid photo

    Why stars love Polaroid’s retro chic: no risk of embarrassing uploads on the net

    Revival for photo format joins other analogue passions endorsed by new celebrity generation, writes Tess Reidy
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