The Polaroid spectra camera. A gift from a friend. I think she bought it used, but can’t say for sure. I did take a lot of polaroids with this. Hundreds, if not thousands. I’m not sure they sell film for this model anymore. Probably I could find some on eBay. I’m not going to look.
Where are the photos you took with the Polaroid? A few years ago at the Guggenheim, NYC, I saw an installation featuring a lot of Polaroid shots from the 60’s. They had a (nearly) morbid fascination, as in a recent era, definitely gone, but better that way. Somehow the photos seemed a bit trashy: faded and very every-day in scope, … and quite right for the exhibit. Have no memory of the theme of the installation, but a vivid memory of those odd Polaroids.
The more you photograph your cameras and photographic equipment for this project, the more I think that they are not obsolete, but are important in feeding your connection with the art you love, its past and present. Maybe that portion of the project needs reclassification; or maybe your subtitle allows for re-purposing. However, if useful in a new way can it be considered useless? I suppose, only obsolete, then, in it’s original concept.
(Catchy phrase, “usefulness of useless things”. You could write titles for upscale newspapers. Do you do catchy ‘branding’ for your web creations? Do you remember the dialogue from Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff”? After a rapid-fire exchange, Martha calls George a “phrase-maker”! As I recall, that released the tension in the exchange and they share a laugh.)
Packed up in boxes in my studio. Those that remain. Re-purposing yes. I just added the tag keep. I won’t get rid of the ones I tag keep.