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Heading down New York’s West Side Highway on a late summer afternoon, the thunder storms kicked up and I was worried that my planned Impossible photo shoot would be a washout. After I parked and left my bags in the studio, the rain stopped and the sun started to peak through the clouds. I grabbed […]
When I began working on my SX-70 constructions in the early seventies collage was one of my main interests. Over a decade before Photoshop was born I was always looking for ways to combine images and images with paint. In returning to these techniques with the new Impossible films I cannot turn back the clock […]
Continuing my exploration of the manipulative qualities of PX-680 Color Shade film, we look at adding paint. When this image emerged from the SX-70 base of my Daylab, I stripped the negative away from the positive in the first several minutes, once the image had appeared. Later, when it was dry I rinsed off the […]
It has now been 31 years since I last worked on my SX-70 Constructions. The advent of Time Zero in 1979 put an end to the kind of emulsion stripping and emulsion transfers that I could accomplish with the “Q” film or what TZ’s predecessor was known inside Polaroid. I returned to using TZ in […]
For many years creative Polaroid aficionados took advantage of the printers offered by Daylab to print existing transparencies onto Polaroid Polacolor peel apart film. Not as well known was a base manufactured by Daylab that utilized integral film, or SX-70 and 600. With these Polaroid films now quickly becoming unavailable, the Daylab base seemed obsolete. […]
