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...regret the decision of CHUL to use the Polaroid ID system for freshman ID cards. Despite Bob Palmer's clever dismissal of the Polaroid involvement and support of the South African regime, we feel compelled to take issue with the candor of his statements...
...when the Polaroid Revolutionary Worker's Movement (a group of Black workers at Polaroid) formed and challeneged the company's sale of ID systems and film to South Africa. Polaroid's original response was a flat denial of any business or sales of equipment to South Africa. After further pressure and under threat of a boycott, Polaroid admitted publicly through national and international advertising that it had been in business in S.A. since 1938, just one year after incorporation. Polaroid stated that its International Sales `Department had sold 65 identity systems and comparable film to the police regime. PRWM...
These facts have been documented, corroborated and accepted nationally and internationally, and accepted by the United Nations in reports and official stances. Polaroid has used such evasiveness, denials and "spare-part" theory (vis-a-vis many S.A. suppliers) in order to diminish international response to the international boycott called by the PRWM...
...effort to express their private and often idiosyncratic views of modern life, these artists apply paint, beads and hair to their pictures, cut them up and stitch them together. They explore the artistic potential of old techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much...
...f/64 Group reflected the depression age's desire for realism, paralleled the rise of photojournalism and revolutionized photographic styles on the West Coast. Now, 45 years since the f/64 Group disbanded, Imogen follows her own whims more than any set style. She takes "completely accidental failures on the Polaroid" and mounts and shows them anyway. She has begun to experiment with using two or three negatives for one print. Of one of these experiments, a self-portrait done two years ago that superimposes her crossed hands on a rotting tree-trunk, she says, "Let people worry about it. They need...