One Page Polaroid Books

Peaches

When you use a Polaroid camera you look through the view finder and see a particular square piece of the world.  The image that results, however,  is offset about 1/4 inch side to side and top to bottom.  This is disconcerting.  But very quickly your brain compensates and the images you get are the images you intended.  I liked that about using a Polaroid.  I liked the brain magic.

I used to take my Polaroid camera on summer vacations in Vermont.  I used it for the pictures of Hillside I took every year.  One morning I took a Polaroid of the peaches lined up along the porch table where we had our meals.   

On occasion I would take a still life photograph.   I would be drawn to some objects, or the light on them, and would take a photograph.  I was rarely happy with the result.   But I was happy with “Peaches.”  I realize now that what works in “Peaches” is that the “still life” has a context — not just a background.  Space, and in it, evidence of activity and life that surround the “subject” creates the context.   And creates room for imagination.

So I kept “Peaches” and in recent years made the image its own book.

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Heroic Nude

Peaches and Heroic Nude are unique books. Each is 7 x 7 inches. Each original polaroid photograph is window mounted on Stonehenge paper, museum board ends, bound with Zerkall laid smooth paper jacket. 1990 / 2020