Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
June 22nd, 2006 | photography
Polaroid shots by Andrei Tarkovsky. I should try another photo book, one of these days…

June 22nd, 2006 | photography
Polaroid shots by Andrei Tarkovsky. I should try another photo book, one of these days…

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I love Polaroids. There is something wonderful about their particular color balance and vaguely pro-mist bloom. My wife does a lot of Polaroid emulsion transfers. They turn out quite beautiful, especially when applied onto uneven textured paper.
It’s a shame that digital has all but killed them off. You can still get it… but by christ it’s expensive. I wanted to use some Type55 a few months ago. The few people that still stock it wanted £60 – for 12! Ouch.
Beautiful, but expensive.
Yes! Please! More Available Light!!!
Yep Available light was cool – for me it wasn’t so much the photos though it was the story that came alongside them. Wasp woman springs to mind…