Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/12 | Ula Ilnytzky - ap

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NEW YORK – A striking black-and-white photograph of the majestic Bridalveil waterfall is among numerous that landscape photographer Ansel Adams took with Polaroid film — a technology many celebrated artists embraced to produce innovative and surprising works.

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The image is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography being offered at Sotheby's on June 21-22 as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale. The prints are being sold by PBE Corp., a previous owner of the Polaroid brand.

The Polaroid camera was the invention of Edwin H. Land, whose revolutionary 1948 technology for instant photography was not matched until the arrival of the digital camera almost 40 years later.

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Sotheby's

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Gallery

http://www.sothebys.com/minisite/polaroid/slide.html

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Thanks for the Ping Norm...

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Uhh. YW!

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Ah, the good ole days! And the smells, too! Can't you just smell it, feel it and see it again?

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The pictures were instant, but the tonality was usually horrible.

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Ansel Adams...genius, even with a Polaroid...

And, Brett Weston, too.

Thanks for the post.

[Neidermeyer]

The black and white polaroid film that you had to “fix” with a chemical filled squeegee/sponge had teriffic contrast and fine grain ,, used it in a model 95a...

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The favorite of home pornographers everywhere.