Damien Franco | I Wish Someone Would Save Polaroid

I Wish Someone Would Save Polaroid

Posted on May 16, 2008
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I feel like a sham of a photographer when I think about the fact that I never really used Polaroid.  Now it’s almost gone and I’m saddened by the fact that I’ll probably never get to truly love and enjoy all that Polaroid had to offer as an artistic medium. 

Let’s start from the beginning.  I learned photography in high school.  You know, that analog stuff that was before the digital age.  I used my dad’s really old Chinon camera and I thought it was the coolest camera because no one else had one. 

In photo-journalism class I learned alot.  For example; a dark room is the perfect place to hold a makeout session with your girlfriend. 

All kidding aside, we actually had a great teacher.  She knew which students wanted to learn and which ones took the class as a blow off class and she worked well with everyone that way.  I was one of those kids that went back in forth.  My nature in high school was to make every class a blow off class by friending both the teacher and the best student.  It usually worked well for me.  I got by on charisma and a great smile. 

We did work with pinhole cameras and polaroids, learned how to develop our own film in the dark room, burning and dodging, the whole nine yards.  I loved it. 

That was the last time I ever used a Polaroid though.  In high school.  I’m almost 30 now and I don’t know if Polaroid is truly dead, but I certainly hope not.

Have a good weekend.

 

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