Word: polaroiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...YOUR POLAROID SWINGER was ripped off before you even had a chance to take a picture of John Harvard's statue in the Yard, then you've probably realized that the city you now live in is not as cloistered and idyllic as the college you are attending this summer...
...focus your camera on the vista of Cambridge from the tenth-floor terrace of Holyoke Center during your tour of Harvard, remember that there is more to Cambridge than meets the lens of your Polaroid Swinger...
...socially conscious corporation, Polaroid is also, as Palmer puts it, "a choice target." In October 1970, a dozen black-militant employees tacked up posters on Polaroid bulletin boards accusing the company of supporting apartheid in South Africa by allowing its cameras and film to be used in internal passports and by paying much lower wages there to blacks than whites. The charges turned out to be embarrassingly accurate. Even though the Polaroid operation in South Africa is owned by an independent distributor rather than by the parent corporation, Land was deeply hurt by the employee protest. He decided...
...posed for TIME's cover portrait, Edwin Land at times seemed as shy and ill at ease as are most other people when facing a faceless lens. Yet the founder of Polaroid has had more opportunity than most professionals to consider photography both as science and art. In a rare interview with TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman, Land voiced some of his thoughts...
...bothers us at Polaroid to see a world that could be ever so much more tender and beautiful if the full potential of science were realized. We think photography is a field through which that potential can be achieved. That's the wonderful thing about photography-you can have an inner world of science and an outer world of aesthetics...