The Branding of Polaroid 1957-1977: How we beat Eastman Kodak and its little yellow boxes at point of purchase despite a clunky product and an irrelevant corporate name. Graphic designer Paul Giambarba blogs about his experience creating Polaroid's iconic corporate identity, product packaging and print advertising while freelancing for Polaroid through the company's rise and fall.
posted on May 22, 2008 - View this thread

I though documenting my early sex life would be a perfect reason to use Polaroids to do something other than take naked pictures, yet to still play on the sexual identity of the medium. I lived in Alexandria from 1980 to 1999. These were my formative years and they determined the way I dealt with women. A guy documents the spots in his old neighborhood (SFW) where he got kissed, dumped, laid or confused as a kid, and tries to work out "what went wrong." (via, via — both NSFW)
posted on May 7, 2008 - View this thread

MetaFilter's own dirtdirt has been taking a polaroid photograph every day since July 14th, 2002. That's 2114 images as of today. He has other cool sets on his flickr page, my favorite being his pictures of school lunches.
posted on May 5, 2008 - View this thread

Save Polaroid The Polaroid company announced last month that it will stop making instant film next year. Save Polaroid is lobbing Fuji Film and Illford to license the instant film technology and save the product. For a good link about the history and current state of Polarod watch this video by Michael Blanchard.
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - View this thread

The Land List: everything you need to know for and about vintage Polaroid cameras.
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - View this thread

Polaroid Composites by Patrick Winfield. [Via Wooster Collective.]
posted on Dec 6, 2007 - View this thread

Polanoid "We are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography." {stolen from notcot
posted on Dec 2, 2007 - View this thread

The abstract Polaroid photography of Grant Hamilton.
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - View this thread

Ridin' Dirty Face - photos by Mike Brodie in color, black & white and some polaroids.
Also, check out the The Polaroid Photography Collective.
posted on Jan 16, 2007 - View this thread

The Polaroid Photography Collective has a number of links to some great galleries. The multi-shot panoramas are especially nice. {some images may be nsfw}
posted on Apr 6, 2006 - View this thread

nsfw/(Defekto|Vomitus): (presence|representation) (emulsiates|animates) (real|imagined) (Baltimore|portal)./id
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - View this thread

Lego Pinhole Camera. Polaroid Land Camera with Lego conversion. Sample photos.
posted on Oct 9, 2005 - View this thread

Cool Polaroid video.
posted on Oct 2, 2005 - View this thread

Polaroid warns: Don't shake the pictures! (from FauxFox News, among other sources). Giving me an excuse to link to these classic collections of warnings and disclaimers (Don't forget Happy Fun Ball!), not to mention this collection of intentionally altered Celebrity Polaroids.
posted on Feb 18, 2004 - View this thread

Doctor Foxglove's Polaroid Tryptich Project.
posted on Oct 31, 2003 - View this thread

A Polaroid in a Polaroid in a Polaroid in a…
posted on Oct 17, 2003 - View this thread

The Polaroid photographic archive is under threat The archivists are trying to sell the collection together, but as always seems to happen in these cases, it looks like it might be separated. If buildings can be listed, why can't collections like this, which documents six decades of social and artistic history, be protected as well?
posted on Jan 4, 2002 - View this thread

Talk about not getting it... "Polaroid Corp., which slashed jobs and retiree benefits before filing for bankruptcy protection in October, wants to reward top executives with up to $19 million in bonuses and incentives as it dismantles the instant camera and film maker to pay off creditors." Clueless or evil? You make the call...
posted on Dec 6, 2001 - View this thread