If all goes to plan, the Polaroid factory in Enschede, Amsterdam, will soon be making film again thanks to its new owner, an eccentric Austrian artist and businessman named Florian Kaps. Mr Kaps, 39, has dedicated the past five years to instant photography. He set up Polanoid.net, the biggest Polaroid gallery on the web, and the first ever Polaroid-only art gallery in Vienna, called Polanoir.
Smile! Polaroid is saved, by Emily Dugan
(via chrisglass)
Smile! Polaroid is saved, by Emily Dugan
(via chrisglass)
this is so great!
Posted by: kvh | January 19, 2009 at 08:51 AM
Being Dutch I was surprised to find out that according to your blogpost Enschede is a part of Amsterdam, because it's not... Enschede is a city of it's own in the eastern part of Holland and I just wanted to point that out to you.
Posted by: Jacqueline | January 19, 2009 at 08:52 AM
Jacqueline, I just copied that paragraph from an article. Thanks for clearing that up though! Tina
Posted by: swissmiss | January 19, 2009 at 09:13 AM
Is this true? Yay!
Posted by: Amy | January 19, 2009 at 09:13 AM
They need to find a way to capture the images on a memory card, but still produce a printout at the moment of the photo being taken.
Posted by: Prescott Perez-Fox | January 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Prescott - I believe that is called a flat-bed scanner... It's just it works in reverse order... print out, then digital.
Posted by: kvh | January 19, 2009 at 08:09 PM
This is the happiest day of my life!
Posted by: Zana | January 19, 2009 at 09:12 PM
AHHHH! MY LIFE IS INFINITELY BETTER!!!!
Posted by: Johanna | January 19, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Thanks again, Tina. This will make a lot of people very happy! I've credited your story at the link below.
http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/
Posted by: Paul Giambarba | January 20, 2009 at 05:24 PM
Brilliant! Yaay! Long live Polaroid!!
Though, yes it's quite embarrassing to say Enschede is in Amsterdam, whoever wrote the original article. *tsk tsk*
Posted by: Sheila D | January 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Tina, here's the official web for the re-inventing Polaroid.
http://www.the-impossible-project.com/
Posted by: Sheila D | January 21, 2009 at 12:18 PM
If only someone could do for Gocco what has been done for Polaroid!!! Let's hope...
Posted by: mary78 | January 28, 2009 at 02:34 PM
If only someone could do for Gocco what has been done for Polaroid!!! Let's hope...
Posted by: mary78 | January 28, 2009 at 02:34 PM