Lost Gallery: Back Page - Those Old Polaroids

This photograph has an attractive quality about it. It is fading, poorly preserved and covered with imperfections. The end result is an example of what could be called “Accidental Art.” It’s a rare find even for Polaroid shots.

While considering this item and the other Polaroid prints, it occurred that there is no page in Lost Gallery for these forlorn relics of snapshot history.

There are some sets of Polaroid photographs:
Album Page – Memories of an old Halloween Party
And
Back Page - Go-Go Girls

But there is no page for just the odd item that turns up.

To remedy that gap, here is a collection of all the Polaroid Snapshots in Lost Gallery that are not part of a set.

Many of these aging prints have faded and yellowed. (It was an imperfect system, operated by careless amateurs.)
Some of the prints on this page have been enhanced for clarity. To see the original condition, click on the picture and in the resulting page, go to the next photograph in the stream.

NEW ADDITIONS

Color held up pretty well on this one.

trimmed at the top

Actually this is not a Polaroid Print.

This is a rare Kodak instant color print, a little venture that was to eventually cost Kodak 925 million, awarded to Polaroid-Land in a patent infringement suit. Kodak was only in the "instant" print business from 1963 to 1969.

Polaroid print of a girl with a box of chocolates

Swinger print

Another from the Polaroid Swinger.

Remember, as always, you can click on any photograph and go to the Flickr site. Click on it again there and get the largest size available.

Album Page
– Memories of an old Halloween Party

Back Page
- Go-Go Girls

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