Seven Famous Photographers Who Used Polaroids

For artists such as Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams, the Polaroid SX-70 was the digital camera of its day

  • By Jeff Campagna
  • Smithsonian.com, February 22, 2012
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Imogen + Hermiane Pembroke Studios, London 30th July 1982 Yosemite Falls Abandoned House Photo-Transformation Andy Sneezing Andy with SX-70 and Konica
Yosemite Falls

(The WestLicht Polaroid Collection, Vienna / © 2012 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust)


Ansel Adams, Yosemite Falls (1979)

Famous for his large-scale black-and-white photographs of the American West, a septuagenarian Ansel Adams was still able to manage a sense of grandeur with his SX-70 on Yosemite Falls (1979).

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