[HUG ] Re: polaroid backs

DEAR UNCLE DICK,

            At my studio on 19th St (between Park and Broadway, Manhattan)
between 1974 and 1993, I had the ?Wall of Shame??in other words, a wall of
Polaroids of EVERY shoot done in the studio and most of the location shoots.
I gave the best to the clients and kept the rudest ones for the wall.  There
were some very funny images of some famous people.  It was great fun!  All
of my new clients jockeyed to get ?on the wall?.  Good marketing trick!

            I recall one shoot I did for the designer of wedding dresses in
Conde Nast?s Brides Magazine.  The stylist actually crawled up under the
front of the model?s wedding dress to adjust the petty coats.  I told the
model to close her eyes, lean her head back and say, ?Ohhhhhhhh!?  That
Polaroid was called Brides Head Revisited!  

During another shoot for men?s and women?s sleep wear (satin bathrobes,
etc), I had just returned from the Russian/Ukrainian neighborhood on 6th St
and 2nd Avenue with a COMPLETE kielbasa (about two feet long).  I was
shooting a male and female model in their satin sleepwear.  Well, you can
imagine where the kielbasa wound up.  The female model was unaware of our
plans.  I told her to look over her shoulder.  Her eyes nearly popped out of
her head!  

Sooooooooooooooo, you see the serious and professional uses to which
Polaroids can be put! 

            All seriousness aside, you should definitely display them.
People love them.  Even if you do shoot digital (Great Scott!  Holmes!) you
could print out thumb nails and put them up along with the Polas.  I know
they aren?t the same but your intentions will be in the right place.  

                        CHEERS!

                                    BOB 

 

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Subject: [HUG ] Re: polaroid backs

 

Dear Nephew James,

 

                 Read Mr. Kiss? note very carefully ? he appears to know
exactly what he is doing. I wish he lived closer to me ? he could come round
my studio and help me to figure out exactly what I am doing?.

 

                Keep the back. Get Fuji film packs (far better than Polaroid
in many ways) and use them to check lighting patterns, shadow mistakes,
poses, etc. Looking through the viewfinder is essential, and looking at the
actual subject even more so, but sometimes I find I need to see the image
down on a flat surface to see if what I wanted is there. I think it is the
difference between stereo vision and 2-dimensional representation.

 

                I keep the instant films in a big fish bowl and the client?s
love to fossick in there to see what other people look like, I am going to
trim the best ones and laminate them under a glass table top as a décor
feature, next to the hanging fishnet and the lava lamp. Martha Stewart, eat
your heart out?.

 

 

Uncle Dick



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