Photography degree zero: cultural history of the polaroid image
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2007 Number 62
Photography degree zero: cultural history of the polaroid image
Peter Buse pages -
Abstract
Buse considers technological developments in photography since Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera in 1947, and suggests the cultural role of “instant” image making. The article criticises Roland Barthes’ and Stephen Heath’s dismissal of the Polaroid, discusses its imminent obsolescence, and suggests that its intimate image-making-in the specialised sense developed by Georges Bataille-is most culturally significant.
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Peter Buse (2007) Photography degree zero: cultural history of the polaroid image, New Formations, 2007(62), -