That’s not just a print, it’s a fetish. This fetish is about touching a picture that just came out of the camera few moments ago, waiting for chemistry to shape the skin of your model inside the Polaroid frame. Nothing is more redundant than the expression “instant photography”, if we refer that to digital photography. The picture appears on the screen of your iPhone just a moment after you shot it and 2 minutes later it will uploaded in Instagram. Before digital, for many decades, “instant photography” meant Polaroid. There’s a lot of overlap between digital and instant photography, but what lacks in digital is the object. The object is something you can touch, the print, suddenly available in your hands; then you have the frame, that was not meant to be ‘cool’: it was just needed to hold the chemistry (i.e. developer), many layers, the negative and the positive edges. Did you know that inside each Polaroid print there’s also a tiny sponge and an incredibly low quantity of C4 explosive? Now you do. (Ph. Alessandro Panelli, polaroid) Many people stated that digital is about ‘images’, while analog (i.e. 35mm, medium and large formats) is about ‘pictures’. Stated this [...]
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