…Happy Family
I had been making photographs with a polaroid camera for a while when I discovered that there was a Polaroid camera that made black and white images. The prints were a nice rectangular shape but had an odd violet cast. I used the camera for a time but tired of the results. I missed the rich blacks I could get working with black and white film.
Some years later, when I was using photoshop and printing in the studio, I realized I could scan the violet toned polaroids and adjust them in photoshop to print in actual blacks and white. Thus, Happy Family.
These were the only work I saved of the black and white Polaroids. They were odd photographs. An odd mix of family and the sometime friends of our sons during their adolescence. A book of time past.
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Happy Family made in an edition of 5. 9 x 16.75 inches. Nineteen archival ink jet prints mounted on stonehenge paper, museum board ends bound with mylar jacket.