Michael R. Barrick

I did a shoot with Gaby dB. yesterday for Elaine's store. During the shoot, for fun, I also made a few images with my circa 1971-76 Model 440 Polaroid Land Camera. The signatures on these images has been added with Photoshop, otherwise these are just scanned, straightened, and resized.

Nothing like a Polaroid to add a dash of kitsch and make anything seem just a little seedy.

There was a box of "trash" from an office kipple purge and I liberated a Polaroid Impulse AF, complete with an extra package of film. At current film prices the photos cost about $3 a piece so there may not be much practical application for these things in the age of digital photography, but there is just no duplicating that Polaroid look. There is art waiting to be made.