The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
Packing at my apartment is slooooooow going … it’s more a matter of pulling everything out of closets and drawers so that I can determine what needs to get pitched before I start the actual packing. OY! Moving is a pain but the purging is a good exercise for me.
I finally got around to scanning some of the Polaroid photos that I’ve been taking the past few months. I’ve taken well over 200 photos but simply cannot muster up the wherewithal to scan them all. Trust me, they’re not all great … but I did manage to snap a few very cool ones. Last week, I mentioned that I snapped a self portrait that I modeled on one of Andy Warhol’s self portrait Polaroid photos (which appears in The Polaroid Book, a gift from David for Xmas) … here is a comparison of the original Warhol and my take on it:
The camera in my photo is a 1977 Polaroid One Step with Q Light attachment, which was a gift from David’s mother. She knew that I’ve been collecting Polaroids so she gave me the family’s very well-preserved old Polaroid camera as a gift. It’s not too bad, I don’t think. I’ve uploaded the 30+ Polaroids that are my faves and have been scanned for sharing HERE. Incidentally, David also got me the book Polaroids by Robert Mapplethorpe for Xmas (a nod to the actual exhibit of the photos that we saw in person at the Whitney Museum in NY last September). As much as I can appreciate Mapplethorpe’s photos, I don’t think I’ll be mimicking his self portraits (those of you familiar with his photography understand what I’m getting at). In any event, there you have it … I have recently procured other Polaroid cameras that use different kinds of Instant Film. I’m just now branching out with using different film formats now.
BUT … all of that really has to take a backseat to the main issue at hand — the move. We are at t-minus 5 days and counting …
Tags: Andy Warhol, Polaroid One Step with Q Light
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Yes, I’d be way more comfortable seeing your ‘above the waist’ self portraits more than any Mapplethorpe influenced ones, thank you :)
January 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
LOVES IT!! 5 days isn’t crap!!
January 27th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Purging closets is good for the soul, AND that makes more room for NEW CRAP!
January 27th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
You will need an extra room just for all of your cameras’ if you continue collecting them.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
@Marissa — AMEN!
January 27th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Instead of throwing things away, try to recycle all that can be recycled! Can’t wait to see pics of your new place!
January 27th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
your polaroids are great trent! awesome job.
January 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Aw, c’mon Trent. We’d all love to see your ‘Mapplethorpe’! LOL
Good luck with the move!
January 27th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Okay, I’m over the polaroid talk already.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
funny, i was emptying my old houses’s basement, and i found my father’s polaroid camera circa 1980-ish, I think. It was pretty cool to find :)
January 27th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
your photos are fantastic :) i enjoyed them very much.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I had a Polaroid camera just like that! My parents gave it to me when I graduated high school in 1977. It’s long gone. Along with my Kodak flip-flash.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Hey, that was one of my 1st cameras, & I liked how it gave “instant” pictures… But for some reason they always seemed out of focus or over/under exposed. Then there were the cartridges that were bulky & big.
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Suffice it to say, I quickly grew frustrated & stopped taking pictures. On my next birthday (4 months later), one of my presents was a Kodak Instamatic camera – Really basic (no fancy lenses like my dad’s 35mm. But after I used it for awhile & got the rolls developed… For such a simple camera, the shots I got were amazing!
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I hung on to that camera for years until it literally wore out & became obsolete. I miss it but have those picture I took with it. 13 years old, 1st ever trip outside of Canada, taking shots out the airplane window to catch birds in flight below us & tiny squares of land, mountains, etc.. Driving from Austria to Italy & taking pictures of gondolas so high in the air they were tiny dots suspended in mid-air (but can still be identified with a magnifying glass)… Finally, in Venice I took close-up shots of pigeons sitting on my hand & on my head!
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HEY, TRENT! Did YOU ever have a Kodak Instamatic camera?
January 28th, 2009 at 12:32 am
=] Yay! You scanned some I wanted to see some of your pictures. Is the second Polaroid of you and Tara from Buffy?
January 28th, 2009 at 12:37 am
@Jake — yep! it’s me and Amber Benson :)
January 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Trent, are you still buying film now? I know they ceased production but are there still stores that are selling them? I have an old Polaroid and I always wanted to use it but I never got around to buying film- now I hear they’re not making them anymore and im so mad!! :(
January 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
@Harper — stores like Target still sell it but not all stores, call ahead to see if they have it in stock. hurry tho, once it’s all gone, it’s gone for good