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

(Lucas Samaras / Hirshhorn Museum, SI)
Greek multimedia artist Lucas Samaras wasn’t content to sit back and see what developed when he shot with his Polaroid SX-70. Instead he took to manipulating the colored dyes on the ejected drying photographs with whatever was handy, whether it was pins or rubber erasers. As a result, the self-portraits he often shot in his kitchen with mirrored and patterned backgrounds became even more extreme and other worldly.











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Trying & Learning. WEB EXTRA Smithsonian.com/Kruger Take Care Dez
Posted by Desiree McCoy on July 18,2012 | 09:05 PM
Happy to have found! Thanks for the Inspiration! Dez
Posted by Desiree McCoy on July 18,2012 | 08:59 PM