Really enjoyed this one. Reminded me a bit.

A sizeable tome containing a wide variety of subjects captured by the different Polaroid formats. This surprised me as I thought the square shaped SX-70 images were going to be the only Polaroid format shown in the book due to the cover of the photo-book. None of the images felt cheap to look at due to the sharpness of the images and excellent color reproduction. Beyond a short introduction and the end section on the numerous Polaroid camera models, there is little text. Most of the pages contai...

Unfortunately, only a handful of the photos included in here actually made me stop browsing it...

In this age of digital everything, it is easy to forget what a marvel Polaroid film was. To think that here was this thick, easily-marred, heavy-bordered piece of film that would, within seconds, display an image was, in its day, mind blowing.For a select few generations, the simple, black Polaroid camera was a requisite part of high school and college life. There was one at every dorm party, at every school event, at every haunted house, at every roller rink, at every arcade. They were staples

Posted on my book blog.Regardless of bad choices in business practice, Polaroid and its cameras remain one of the best things that happened to Photography. Recently, with news of the company shutting down and new enterprises taking over the responsibility to perpetuate the film manufacture, there's been a revival of interest in the polaroid medium, specially for artists and photographers.This book is gorgeous and of wonderful quality. The essays are interesting, if a little short and superficial...

the news that polaroid film will no longer be produced is the saddest thing I have heard in a while.

Nice book with 254 shoots have selected from The Polaroid Collection Photography.The book consists of three sections: the history of Polaroid brand formation, collections of Polaroid shoots have made on different films, cameras and artists, and, finally, catalog of Polaroid instant cameras from beginning till legendary Polaroid SX-70 SLR.The books has a lot of nudity photos and looks more Polaroid brand promotional than art photography book. Nevertheless, the books is interesting, has works of m...

Fantastic selection of Polaroid images on a variety of films, showing off just what could be done in the right hands. Sadly, Polaroid's recent rocky history seems to have resulted in the company's collection being split and sold off, but this book showcases some great work.Accompanying text is minimal, the images speak for themselves.Unfortunately, I've found the currently available Polaroid Originals films to be very poor compared to the old ones, but perhaps I'll blow the dust off my Polaroid

Beautiful. Moving. Inspirational. I really need to get a permanent copy of this.

I only liked maybe 10 of the hundreds of photos in this book. Want to see good Polaroid photography? Flickr and Tumblr are your friends — and that's FREE.

Gorgeous book. Strongly recommend for physical photography fans and those into photography history.

I have no words. I'm afraid if I tried to describe the energy of any of these photographies Steve Christ so wonderfully compiled, the magic would slip away.I am a photography student, and dear stars above, this fills me with desire of grabbing the first camera I can find and photograph the wonders around and beyond.

An interesting selection of photos from the collection of the Polaroid company. As such, it's primarily a showcase for Polaroid film & cameras and the sort of things you can do with them. The roster of artists is quite impressive - including luminaries like Robert Frank, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, Ansel Adams, David Hockney, Jim Dine, Elliott Erwitt, Philippe Halsman, Art Kane, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Eliot Porter, Jerry Uelsmann, Brett Weston and Willi...

A wonderful collection of Instamatic images and a resource for the various camera models produced through the years.

This is a handy tool for someone interested in a brief history of Polaroid film, early cameras, and the progression to modern Polaroid methods. I found it very interesting to learn about the early Polaroid inventors and enthusiasts, and their efforts to make it a commonly accessible art medium for anyone who has sight. It showcases highly acclaimed artists including Ansel Adams, but also identifies low-profile film artists, and as a result brings in a variety of compositional style, colors, and

Good inspiration

An overall beautiful and equally informative book that reignited my love for Polaroid photography. There were several images in particular that I thought were absolutely gorgeous, such as one of a mannequin in Paris where you can see the reflection of buildings in the shop window, or a pale woman lying down at the edge of a vibrant blue pool. It was a good range of new to old photographs, and the essay by Barbara Hitchcock in the beginning of the book worked well in establishing a context and ge...

The Polaroid Book, a gorgeous coffee table book, contains polaroid photographs from the Polaroid collections of photography, taken by a variety of artists, such as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close or David Hockney to name the famous ones. The book is really clean and simple, as it shows a picture by page. There's a lot of different themes and subjects in these polaroids ; they were also taken with different polaroid cameras, which are indexed at the end of the book. Maybe more text would have been welco...

An exceptional collection of Polaroids beautifully reproduced in this fascinating book of a sorely missed photography medium. The introduction articles make for wonderful reads, and I'm so glad they're included in this book. The photographs are so lovely to search through with their different periods of time and place and photographer. I only wish that the year the image was captured was included on the page with the photograph, rather than in a seemingly afterthought of an index in the back of