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unusual facts about Polaroid


Jacques Pugin

In 1985, at the triennial of Fribourg in Switzerland, Polaroid makes available a 50 x 60 cm camera with which Jacques creates the series The Polaroids, a series which now forms part of the eponymous collection.


Anna and Bernhard Blume

Anna and Bernhard Blume together created installations, sequences of large photo scenes and, mostly in the 1990s, Polaroids.

Bill Todman

Frederick S. Todman & Co represented some of the United States biggest companies, including The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Polaroid, Eastman Kodak, Chase Manhattan Bank among many others.

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Billy carries a Polaroid camera with him everywhere, and his reminiscences are illustrated with Polaroid photographs.

Carl Yankowski

Carl J. Yankowski (born 1948) is a CEO who has held senior positions at Polaroid, Pepsi, General Electric, Sony Electronics, Reebok, and Palm, Inc..

Charlie Big Potato

CD1 came with an interactive element featuring the video and CD 2 came with three specially produced polaroid photographs of the band.

Doug Adair

City Camera News was notable for equipping reporters with Polaroid instant cameras, allowing them to take pictures that can be used on the air.

Faded Paper Figures

"Polaroid Solution" was played on Grey's Anatomy, episode "I Saw What I Saw" on October 22, 2009.

Gijs Bakker

He worked and works for numerous companies amongst which are Polaroid, Artifort, HEMA, Royal VKB, and ENO Studio.

Gordon McCarter

McCarter is most likely remembered for a 1995 game in which Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher stuffed a Polaroid photo in McCarter's uniform pocket while leaving the field.

Harland Miller

It is based on a hoard of hundreds of Polaroids found by Miller and taken by a relative of his, all of oven knobs all turned to “Off”.

Herapathite

Herapathite's dichroic properties came to the attention of Sir David Brewster, and were later used by Land in 1929 to construct the first type of Polaroid sheet polarizer.

Impossible Project

In October 2008, Impossible bought the production machinery from Polaroid and leased a building, called Building Noord, which was formerly part of the Polaroid plant in Enschede, Netherlands.

JamisonParker

The CD spawned a music video to the third track, "Your Song", which consisted of a collage of self-shot material, in analogy to the Polaroid pictures on the cover artwork for Notes & Photographs.

John A. Garcia

Garcia’s choice to rent one of his Malibu homes traditionally used for charitable events to a commercial group, Polaroid, came under scrutiny in 2007.

Leah Hackett

In July 2008, Hackett was the face selected to launch the Polaroid PoGo.

Lucas Samaras

He has worked with multi-media collages, and by manipulating the wet dyes in Polaroid photographic film to create what he calls "Photo-Transformations".

Marius Bercea

Using what he describes as “an intensely personal archive” - family photographs, newspaper clippings, and tales from his family’s history - his paintings replicate the tonal impression of a Polaroid and fabricate the sense of a fading past, sometimes focussing on the happiness of simple moments and childhood routines.

Mary Moorman

Moorman stated that she stepped off the grass onto the street to take her Polaroid photo.

More Songs About Buildings and Food

The front cover of the album, conceived by Byrne and executed by artist Jimmy De Sana, is a photomosaic of the band comprising 529 close-up Polaroid photographs.

Peter Hammill

As a former Jesuit chorister, his delivery is usually Received Pronunciation British English — notable exceptions are his Afrikaner accent on "A Motor-bike in Afrika" and his Cockney accent on "Polaroid" — and ranges in tone from peacefully celestial to screaming rants (which are nevertheless highly controlled).

Polaroid Corporation

He - teamed with André Bosman, a former head of film production in the large Polaroid film factory at Enschede - designed a plan to redesign the SX-70/600 film system in collaboration with Ilford Photo, and convinced the Polaroid owners to participate.

Polaroid Eyewear

The company manufactures its Polaroid polarizing lenses at its European Research Centre in the Vale of Leven, Scotland.

Samuel Steward

During his years of work with the Institute, Steward collected and donated sexually themed materials to the Kinsey archive, gave Kinsey access to his lifelong sexual records, introduced him to large numbers of sexually active men in the Chicago area, and provided him with large numbers of early sex Polaroid photographs which he took during the frequent all-male sex parties he held in his Chicago apartment.

Success trap

For example, in the 1990s Polaroid’s management failed to respond to the transition from analogue to digital photography, although the rise of digital technology had been evident since the 1980s.

United States trademark law

For example, coined words - such as Kodak, Polaroid, or Starbucks - are considered fanciful and receive strong trademark protection.

Vismon

Pike and company went around their Center, convincing everybody, from directors and administrative assistants to engineers and scientists, to pose as they got out a 4x5" view camera with a Polaroid back and took black-and-white photos (Polaroid type 52) of their faces.


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