'Instant Revolution' Honors Art Of The Polaroid

The polaroid camera, master of the instant image, is both a perfect art form for our age of instant-gratification as well as a retro relic of a lost art form. The exhibition 'INSTANT REVOLUTION' will pay tribute to the much beloved Polaroid and its 60-year influence on analog photography.

'INSTANT REVOLUTION' is a joint venture from 'Polaroid' and 'Impossible'. It will feature 5 influential and experimental contemporary photographers' photos captured with the last original Polaroid Spectra film production run from 2008, one of the first products introduced as part of the Polaroid Classic line. Get washed away in the dreamy yesteryear of Polaroid cool -- just remember not to try and shake the pictures!

'INSTANT REVOLUTION' will feature work from Gary Baseman, James Franco, Maripol, Mary Ellen Mark and Jennifer Juniper Stratford. It will show at The Impossible Project Space NYC from February 9 to March 23 2012 and online.

Comments

[mlw1965]

01:38 PM on 02/26/2012

Revolution over! Why use instant film that doesn't work, you have to hide it to try to develop, then it doesn't work! That magic moment is missing in impossible! fail!

[love polaroid]

08:32 PM on 02/19/2012

what exactly is revolutionary about these mediocre polaroids?

[Curtis inSF]

04:33 PM on 02/06/2012

The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor has no clothes! Come on. Seriously? The "revolution"? Please somebody stop this before it goes on much longer. I feel bad that Polaroid has become a relic on the technological waste heap. I wish they had adapted so that a venerable company could have remained viable and kept employing people, but this lame attempt to convince people that these tiny photos with crappy colors that they colored on with magic markers are fine art...it just makes me angry.

[PCCNYC]

11:52 PM on 02/06/2012

Actually there has been some really good Polaroid work done by Andre' Kertesz, Andy Warhol and even the singer Patti Smith, mostly with SX-70 cameras. The higher end Polaroid cameras used more versatile, high quality film.

I have an old 600 camera, but unfortunately the film produced by the Impossible Project is very expensive. Fuji makes a few instant cameras called Instax, and while the film is cheaper, it does not produce very impressive results, in my opinion.

[Enid]

01:40 PM on 02/06/2012

Having owned four Polaroids still have two.
What fun they gave us. My old photos still look good.
Remember when you had too wipe it down with a brunch with a chemical too set the photo.
The flash cube.
Land the Steve Jobs of his day

[mlw1965]

01:11 PM on 02/06/2012

How can you have a polaroid "revolution" without Stefanie Schneider?

[mlw1965]

01:08 PM on 02/06/2012

Ummmm... Stefanie Schneider Hello?