Things I Found on the Internet:

I just found this video of an old friend that passed away a few years ago. I hope that you can remember him the way I do.

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Down with Polaroid power to the Instax

Get shooting here and here.

Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Now that’s my kind of president.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto trades photo to U2 for album cover, details here.

I like to trade. Do you?

Florian Kaps (who started polanoid.net) is saving the Polaroid film legacy.  Mr Kaps bought a Polaroid factory in Enschede, Amsterdam, and hopes to be in production by the end of 2009.

Here is Fuji’s alternative to the Polaroid 600 film.

Instax example by ::stromberg:: found on flickr.

Fujifilm Instax 200 @ B&H Photo  Prints are about 2 1/4″ x 4″

Or cheat and make your digital Polaroid with this application Poladroid.  You have to wait for it to develop for that added nostalgia.

And finally here is what Polaroid thinks of the future, the PoGo instant camera printer and moble printer.

PoGo printer

Thanks to swissmiss for some of this info.

Jean-Yves Lemoigne for the #3 issue Amusement magazine.

Via - Fabrik Project found at DYT

Photographer Satoshi Minakawa’s subject matter just amazes me .

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Phillip Toledano’s “America The Gift Shop”.

I don’t think this project would have been done if we were on the right direction as a country.

Lets change things.

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This is a great way to sabatoge other peoples photos.  Check it out here.

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The Year in Pictures: Freedom Riders

We are so used to seeing mugshots of intoxicated celebrities it’s easy to forget that this type of picture can have a more serious police purpose – or as is the case in the pictures above and below – can be a visual record not of justice served but of massive injustice.
These mugshots were taken of the Freedom Riders arrested by the local police in Jackson, Mississippi, in the summer of 1961. The men and women pictured had boarded buses in Washington and were heading through the deep South to challenge states who were upholding Jim Crow laws and flaunting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision prohibiting segregation on public transport. They were met by violence at almost every stop and after one of the buses was firebombed outside of Alliston, Alabama, CORE leadership wanted to call off the rides. However, an undaunted (and integrated) group of protesters continued to Mississippi where they were arrested and jailed. Far from being intimidated, their example encouraged even more civil rights workers to head south, and before long Jackson’s jails were bursting.

While it would take considerably longer for the situation to improve even slightly, if you want to see what dignity and courage look like – these pictures say it all. You can only be awed by the courage displayed by people who had every right to fear that their lives were in danger, but whose moral certitude allowed them to stare down a police photo- grapher, hold their head up, and in the case of Helen Singleton even allow a knowing smile to cross her face. (She just knew that history would prove her right.)

Celebrating these heroes, the photographer Eric Etheridge has just published a remarkable book Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, in which he tracked down over 70 of the former Freedom Riders, took their portraits and recorded their stories. His contemporary portraits appear alongside many of the original mugshots, and as you can see in the very last picture, Helen Singleton has lost none of her twinkle!

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History keeps the full visual record of these mugshots here.

Helen Singleton

Jane Rosett

I think I saw her in portland the other day.

Via - The Year In Pictures