Today in Things We Love: More than 1,000 Polaroids from Edwin Land’s collection, on sale now. From @Devingo913 on GQ.
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According to CultureGrrl there has been a last minute update that nine of the works will be withdrawn from the Sotheby’s auction, including a Chuck Close portrait (not pictured), and placed back with the remaining Polaroid Collection, which is estimated to be about 10,000 pieces.
“These were not Polaroid’s works to sell, I gave my best work to the collection because it was made clear that it was going to stay together and be given to a museum.”
— Chuck Close on the sale of Polaroid’s collection of photographs to compensate for their bankruptcy.
![Polaroid photos by Lucas Samaras, Chuck Close and Andy Warhol
LONDON. A group led by a former US magistrate judge has launched an 11th hour campaign to prevent the auction of photographs from the Polaroid collection. Judge Sam Joyner and others are working towards filing a motion for a rehearing at the Minnesota bankruptcy court that awarded sale rights to Sotheby’s last August.
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The once-mighty Polaroid Corporation (famed for its invention of instant, negative-free photographs, but since eclipsed by digital photography) filed for bankruptcy twice in the past decade—most recently in 2008 in connection with a $3.65bn Ponzi (investment fraud) scheme at parent company Petters Group Worldwide. The Polaroid name and assets—barring the photography collection—were acquired by private equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital and liquidator Gordon Brothers Group, for $88m in 2009. The collection remained behind with the defunct Polaroid Corporation, renamed PBE, and is in the hands of PBE’s liquidators.
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See also: More than a set of prints…](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz13v6QdcB1qz849zo1_500.jpg)
Polaroid photos by Lucas Samaras, Chuck Close and Andy Warhol
LONDON. A group led by a former US magistrate judge has launched an 11th hour campaign to prevent the auction of photographs from the Polaroid collection. Judge Sam Joyner and others are working towards filing a motion for a rehearing at the Minnesota bankruptcy court that awarded sale rights to Sotheby’s last August.
The once-mighty Polaroid Corporation (famed for its invention of instant, negative-free photographs, but since eclipsed by digital photography) filed for bankruptcy twice in the past decade—most recently in 2008 in connection with a $3.65bn Ponzi (investment fraud) scheme at parent company Petters Group Worldwide. The Polaroid name and assets—barring the photography collection—were acquired by private equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital and liquidator Gordon Brothers Group, for $88m in 2009. The collection remained behind with the defunct Polaroid Corporation, renamed PBE, and is in the hands of PBE’s liquidators.
See also: More than a set of prints…
Your Polaroid in Times Square
The Impossible Project (the organization that’s bringing Polaroid back from the dead) has scored some sweet billboard space in Times Square, and they want your Polaroid picture to place in it.
They explain the ad space, saying, “In order to raise awareness towards our cause to save analog Instant Photography, Clear Channel Spectacolor has generously offered The Impossible Project and its mission space on a billboard in Times Square. We ask you to send us one of your Polaroid photos that in some way references Edwin Land’s quote ‘Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.’” Which means you are probably going to have to take a new photo.
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Andy Warhol, Martha Graham, May 1979
All I have to do is add a little Madonna to get my blog to start looking like a scene from The Birdcage.
Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1977
I love that he did self portraits and other portraits in polaroid. It’s just screams instant gratification doesn’t it?
