A Polaroid a day for 19 years

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 · 2 Comments 

Randomly, an Aunt in Canada sent me this link that she’d heard of; it’s the collection of a man (Jamie Livingston) who took a Polaroid a day for 19 years, right up until the day he died.  It’s a beautiful testament to photography and to keeping your eyes open in life.

See it, here.  (And I suggest clicking on the new version where you can zoom and pan 5 year blocks at a time).


photo: screen shot from http://hughcrawford.addresszero.com/

Or for a nice review/summary on it you can go, here.

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2 Responses to “A Polaroid a day for 19 years”
  1. jw says:
    October 22, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    I wonder if the shock of Polaroid discontinuing its instant film is what made him kick the bucket?
    http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/02/08/polaroid_shutting_2_mass_facilities_laying_off_150/

  2. Gabriel Darling says:
    October 25, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    I’m inspired to take out my Polaroid camera and organize a Polaroid shooting frenzy with random peeps in Portland….

    too bad you are going to miss the Halloween festivities in NoPo this year!
    I shall shoot plenty of Julian Tulip and the rest of the crew!

    thanks again,

    Gabriel