Instant Photography

インスタント写真 / 1948– / Technique / Photographic Printing

Polaroid's experience of the image appearing on the spot: the white-bordered square, tender chemical color and one-of-a-kind materiality — an intimacy that continues through Instax after digital.

The white-bordered square / Tender drifting color / The wait for development / One-of-a-kind materiality

Instant Photography — SX-70とプリント（CC BY 4.0）Instant Photography — ポラロイドSX-70（CC BY 2.0）
SX-70とプリント（CC BY 4.0） ／ ポラロイドSX-70（CC BY 2.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Edwin Land's SX-70 / Warhol's Polaroids / Fujifilm's Instax

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