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As many of you know, I am a big fan of vintage Polaroid photography and from time to time I like to pick up new vintage cameras online. Most of the Polaroid cameras you find on eBay can be quite expensive (tho, great deals can be had from time to time). These days, I find vintage Polaroid cameras on sites like Etsy for very, very reasonable prices. Case in point, I managed o stumble upon a beautiful black Polaroid One Step Plus camera with Q Light flash attachment … and my new cam arrived yesterday.

Woooot!!! Great, great news to pass along today … almost one year after Polaroid decided to halt production of their beloved instant film and a couple of years after they completely halted production of ALL of their instant cameras, the company has decided to heed the call of Polaroid fans to revive the brand. At an event yesterday in Hong Kong, Polaroid announced that they will be relaunching production of their classic Polaroid One Step instant camera and has commissioned The Impossible Project (which came into being after the instant film was no long being produced and whose aim is to “re-start production of analog instant film for vintage Polaroid cameras”) to produce a NEW batch of instant film for the new cameras. Again, I say Woot!!! Here is the full text of the press release that was released yesterday:

We can not wait another day to proudly bring you some very important news which was presented by Polaroid itself at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong. After all the difficulties and changes of ownership during the last years, the new management of Polaroid now understands the source of the brand’s attraction – which is surprisingly not based in digital cameras but in Dr. Edwin Land’s groundbreaking 1948 invention of Instant Photography, which he ingeniously devised and passionately developed with a lot of care and devotion. Since 2005, it has been our honour and pleasure to celebrate and evoke the sensational and almost mysterious power of Instant Photography in memoriam of Dr. Land. Doing everything in our power to keep this beloved and unique photographic medium alive, we grabbed the chance to take over the last factory producing Instant films from the old Polaroid management and to start The Impossible Project in 2008. Re-inventing a new analog integral film, we are now preparing, supporting and managing the comeback of Instant Photography. Accomplishing this mission and proudly owning the former Polaroid plant in Enschede (NL), as well as already holding the first working hand-coated samples in our trembling hands, we are pleased to herewith announce a history-making cooperation between The Impossible Project and Polaroid: Polaroid will re-launch the legendary Polaroid One Step Camera and is therefore commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid® branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010. We feel proud and excited that our ambitions and all the relentless work we have already invested are now becoming the foundation for Polaroid’s comeback as a producer of Instant Cameras. Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project’s new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 – with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year.

This is such great news!!! There are countless Polaroid fans out there and I know they are rejoicing with me today. Now, it’s unclear how long Polaroid plans to produce these new cameras and it is also unclear how many will be made … but the fact that any of them are being produced at all is really happy news. I’m very excited that the instant film will deffo be produced in the coming year … which means I will be able to use the cameras I already have for years to come!! If you have never had the chance to own a Polaroid instant camera, I urge you to get your hands on one as soon as they are made available. This is great news for photography fans the world over … I am just so thrilled :)

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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 …