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Real Fun by Ashod Simonian

We’re a big fan of the Polaroid camera and not just for its quality of instant gratification, there is something about the way the Polaroid treats color, the way that it introduces texture into an image that makes them very through-the-looking glass in a decidedly low-fi way. Immediate, tossed off even, the Polaroid is instant yesterday.

So if you’re going to chronicle, we suggest you do as Ashod Simonian did and drag along the Polaroid 600 One Step and its obscenely expensive film. Simonian did just that on the composite road trip(s) captured in REAL FUN: Photographs from the Independent Music Landscape. Pretty interesting that the visual qualities of the Polaroid mean that REAL FUN in some ways puts an era in a bottle while it’s still being played out. Read the rest of this entry »

POSTED: April 25th, 2007 | AUTHOR: erin | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: , | No Comments »