Polaroid has still got it after all these years. As proof, and for some Friday fun, check out this 1970’s retro how-to video/advert/documentary. Still cool and amazingly poignant.
Polaroid – the original social network.
Snap a picture, show your friends = Create. Share Sustain.
Note the range, accessibility and the diversity.
Pretty impressive.
Reminder to check out the Impossible Project, plus one of my recent Polaroid snapshots after the jump.
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I’m humbled.
good call Chase. Thanks.
How fitting this post is. I just bought a q-light one/snap polo with the rainbow stripe down the front at a flea market for $2.50 when i was out of town. it takes sb-70 film i think but i was going to make a filter for it so i could use 600 speed. Fun stuff.
I never took the chance to get into Polaroids that much. I wish I had.
Charles and Ray Eames produced this! And Elmer Bernstein did the music! Cool historic footnote.
Thanks Chase! Strangly enough, this old video has inspired me to shoot more for myself. I think that a lot of us or at least I take digital for granted. Polaroid had the right ideal years ago. Never before have we had to opportunity to just shoot for the love of photography like now. No film packs or flash cubes, just pure shooting. I could shoot a thousand shots today. I could chose to share them all or toss them at no cost. Thanks again. I really enjoy stuff like this.