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Dutch Polaroid enthusiasts calling themselves the Impossible Project have acquired an old, shut down Polaroid factory in order to make their own instant film. This video shows the manufacturing process for making their version of Polaroid film, which is quite fascinating, even if the idea of bringing back Polaroids seems like a waste of time and money.
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In the 70s and 80s, Polaroid’s founder, Edwin Herbert Land, provided prominent artists with custom-made cameras and film not available to the public. Big names like Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Ansel Adams were fans of the limited-edition technology and used it often, resulting in the 44,000-piece collection of Polaroid masterpieces now owned by Vienna-based WestLicht Museum of Photography. They’re displaying 350 of the photos now in Austria, but if you can’t catch a flight in time to check it out, Flavorwire has a preview. Link
Image: Patrick Nagatani/ WestLicht Collection
The Impossible Project is a worldwide effort to restart and reinvent and save instant photography – their aim to re-start production of analog instant film for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010.
Personally I love the instant photography as it gives a really unique effect it’s impossible to gain from other photography effects.
This is a really clever campaign backed by the likes of Urban Outfitters and Wallpaper.
Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.
Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).
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