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15th out of 101 books
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The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography
This survey features more than 400 works from the Polaroid Collection along with essays by Hitchcock, who illuminates the beginnings and history of the Polaroid Corporation.
Hardcover, 351 pages
Published
April 1st 2008
by Taschen
(first published February 25th 2005)
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Regardless of bad choices in business practice, Polaroid and its cameras remain one of the best things that happened to Photography. Recently, with news of the company shutting down and new enterprises taking over the responsibility to perpetuate the film manufacture, there's been a revival of interest in the polaroid medium, specially for artists and photographers.
This book is gorgeous and of wonderful quality. The essays are interesting, if a little short and superficial...more
Regardless of bad choices in business practice, Polaroid and its cameras remain one of the best things that happened to Photography. Recently, with news of the company shutting down and new enterprises taking over the responsibility to perpetuate the film manufacture, there's been a revival of interest in the polaroid medium, specially for artists and photographers.
This book is gorgeous and of wonderful quality. The essays are interesting, if a little short and superficial...more
the news that polaroid film will no longer be produced is the saddest thing I have heard in a while.
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I am so glad I bought this book. If you love the visual arts and photography, this is one to add to your collection. The introduction by Barbara Hitchcock about Lands and Adams (Ansel) is insightful. Given the genre of mobile photography and the effects one can do digitally, this book is a reminder of why old-school methods, simple as they may seem, are still relevant particularly in photography - we are only limited by our imagination. Some exceptional Polaroids are included in the book.
The book features some real treasures, coming from a multitude of talented photographers. Due to that, not all images are everybody's cup of tea, but whatever makes photography work for you, you're bound to find images in these that appeal to you. As far as value for money is concerned this is a top title, given its low price on Amazon. Recommended!
The Polaroid Book, a gorgeous coffee table book, contains polaroid photographs from the Polaroid collections of photography, taken by a variety of artists, such as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close or David Hockney to name the famous ones.
The book is really clean and simple, as it shows a picture by page. There's a lot of different themes and subjects in these polaroids ; they were also taken with different polaroid cameras, which are indexed at the end of the book. Maybe more text would have been welco...more
The book is really clean and simple, as it shows a picture by page. There's a lot of different themes and subjects in these polaroids ; they were also taken with different polaroid cameras, which are indexed at the end of the book. Maybe more text would have been welco...more
I'm a sucker fro Polaroid and this book delivers like gangbusters! A huge (400+) collection of Polaroids from a wide array of artist and photographers. must for any fan of the medium
An instant image and instant reminder that the ploaroid photograph is truly memorable, moving and magnificent.
I love polaroid pictures and and I love this book! It makes a great coffee table book and conversation starter.
I love having this book within hands reach whenever I just want to see some inspiring images.
This book is an exceptional compilation of Polaroid art. Higly recommended to read and enjoy!
Lost count of how many times i've read this, and it's still pure magic.
cool, i have this book for my holiday present :D
e non le avremo mai più.
Just beautiful.
Love Taschen books.
Mar 27, 2011
La Parres
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Amazing! :)
The Polaroid Book is a wonderful collection of different polaroid photographs taken by many talented artists with an array of different techniques. This is something that I would recommend to someone that was interested in photography, or someone that is interested in looking at very inspiring images.
Dear Polaroid, how dare you take these fabulous pieces of "art-to-be-made" away from the world? At least we have this book (and many others like it) in which to remember the Polaroid. (tears).
Aug 07, 2007
katie
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
art lovers and photo geeks alike
Shelves:
art-art-history
this book is so good that i brought it to school with me, and that's saying something; i left a gazillion books on my shelf at home, keeping in mind that they'd be waiting for me when i returned.
I love it when Zach reserves books for me. Very pretty this one. My fave is the woman laying in the corn field.
love the polaroid, little disappointed with this book, even if it was packaged in a silver polaroid film bag.
disappointing. take one look at any polaroid groups on flickr and you will find vastly more creative work.
An excellent anthology. Also a great reference for inspiration.
Jun 16, 2013
Hanane Babi
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